[PDF][PDF] The left hemisphere's role in hypothesis formation

G Wolford, MB Miller, M Gazzaniga - The Journal of …, 2000 - Soc Neuroscience
In a probability guessing experiment, subjects try to guess which of two events will occur
next. Humans tend to match the frequency of previous occurrences in their guesses. Animals …

Searching for patterns in random sequences.

G Wolford, SE Newman, MB Miller… - Canadian Journal of …, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
Les personnes qui observent une série d'événements semblent vouloir y déceler une
tendance explicative qui les aiderait à prédire des événements ultérieurs. Elles …

The human brain encodes event frequencies while forming subjective beliefs

M d'Acremont, W Schultz, P Bossaerts - Journal of Neuroscience, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
To make adaptive choices, humans need to estimate the probability of future events. Based
on a Bayesian approach, it is assumed that probabilities are inferred by combining a priori …

Estimation of frequency of occurrence of abstract designs after frontal or temporal lobectomy

ML Smith, B Milner - Neuropsychologia, 1988 - Elsevier
Patients with unilateral frontal-or temporal-lobe excisions and normal control subjects were
shown a series of abstract designs. Within the series, the designs differed in the number of …

The connection between random sequences, everyday coincidences, and belief in the paranormal

P Bressan - Applied Cognitive Psychology: The Official Journal …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This paper argues against the theory that people interpret unusual coincidences as
paranormal because they misunderstand the probability of their occurring by chance. In the …

Transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates decision making in a probabilistic guessing task

D Hecht, V Walsh, M Lavidor - Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
In a random sequence of binary events where one alternative occurs more often than the
other, humans tend to guess which of the two alternatives will occur next by trying to match …

A computational model of information processing in the frontal cortex and basal ganglia

A Amos - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2000 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Performance on the Wisconsin Card Sort Test (WCST) of patients with
schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease (PD), and Huntington's disease (HD) was simulated by a …

Bias in the brain: a diffusion model analysis of prior probability and potential payoff

MJ Mulder, EJ Wagenmakers, R Ratcliff… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
In perceptual decision-making, advance knowledge biases people toward choice
alternatives that are more likely to be correct and more likely to be profitable. Accumulation …

Fluency heuristic: A model of how the mind exploits a by-product of information retrieval.

R Hertwig, SM Herzog, LJ Schooler… - Journal of Experimental …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Boundedly rational heuristics for inference can be surprisingly accurate and frugal for
several reasons. They can exploit environmental structures, co-opt complex capacities, and …

Tricks of memory

HL Roediger III, KB McDermott - Current Directions in …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Remembering an episode from even the recent past may involve a blend of fiction and fact.
We discuss a straightforward laboratory paradigm that is proving useful in the study of false …