Computational limits don't fully explain human cognitive limitations

Ernest S. Davis; Gary F. Marcus

doi:10.1017/S0140525X19001651

Computational limits don't fully explain human cognitive limitations

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The project of justifying all the limits and failings of human cognition as inevitable consequences of strategies that are actually optimal relative to the limits on computational resources available may have some value, but it is far from a complete explanation. It is inconsistent with both common observation and a large body of experimentation, and it is of limited use in explaining human cognition.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e7
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	43
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19001651
State	Published - 2020

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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Behavioral Neuroscience

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