The Predictive Power of Heuristic Portfolios in Human Syllogistic Reasoning

A core method of cognitive science is to investigate cognition by approaching human behavior through model implementations. Recent literature has seen a surge of models which can broadly be classified into detailed theoretical accounts, and fast and frugal heuristics. Being based on simple but general computational principles, these heuristics produce results independent of assumed mental processes.

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