Intractability and the use of heuristics in psychological explanations.

Many cognitive scientists, having discovered that some computational-level characterization f of a cognitive capacity $${\phi}$$ is intractable, invoke heuristics as algorithmic-level explanations of how cognizers compute f. We argue that such explanations are actually dysfunctional, and rebut five...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 187; no. 2; pp. 471 - 488
Main Authors:	Rooij, Iris, Wright, Cory, Wareham, Todd
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jul2012
Subjects:	Heuristic algorithms Psychology Cognitive science Computational complexity Scientists
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