Cognitive costs of decision-making strategies: A resource demand decomposition analysis with a cognitive architecture.
Several theories of cognition distinguish between strategies that differ in the mental effort that their use requires. But how can the effort-or cognitive costs-associated with a strategy be conceptualized and measured? We propose an approach that decomposes the effort a strategy requires into the t...
| Publicado en: | Cognition Vol. 170; pp. 102 - 123 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Jan2018
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