SESSION 2: QUALITATIVE MODEL COMPARISON

Papers

• Busemeyer, J. R. (in prep). Chapter 2: Qualitative model comparisons. and Appendix
• Roberts, S., & Pashler, H. (2000). How persuasive is a good fit? A comment on theory testing. Psychological Review, 107, 358-367.
• Pitt, M. A., & Myung, I. J. (2002). When a good fit can be bad. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 421-425.

Background Readings

• Zucchini, W. (2000). An introduction to model selection. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 44, 41-61.
• Regier, T. (2003). Constraining computational models of cognition. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
• Townsend, J. T. (1990). Serial versus parallel processing: Sometimes they look like tweedledum and tweedledee but the can (and should) be distinguished. Psychological Science, 1, 46-54.

References

• Knowlton, B. J., & Squire, L. (1993). The learning of categories: Parallel brain systems for item memory and category knowledge. Science, 262, 1747-1749.
• Nosofsky, R. M., & Zaki, S. F. (1998). Dissociations between categorization and recognition in amnesic and normal individuals: An exemplar based interpretation. Psychological Science, 9, 247-255.

Resources

• Myung, I. J., et al. (2000). Special Issue on Model Selection. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 44. (An excellent resource to selection techniques)

Powerpoint Slides from lecture

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