Search Results - "Perfors, Andrew"

Socially Situated Transmission: The Bias to Transmit Negative Information is Moderated by the Social Context by Fay, Nicolas, Walker, Bradley, Kashima, Yoshihisa, Perfors, Andrew

“…Cultural evolutionary theory has identified a range of cognitive biases that guide human social learning. Naturalistic and experimental studies indicate…”
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Public acceptance of privacy-encroaching policies to address the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom by Lewandowsky, Stephan, Dennis, Simon, Perfors, Andrew, Kashima, Yoshihisa, White, Joshua P, Garrett, Paul, Little, Daniel R, Yesilada, Muhsin

“…The nature of the COVID-19 pandemic may require governments to use privacy-encroaching technologies to help contain its spread. One technology involves…”
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The acceptability and uptake of smartphone tracking for COVID-19 in Australia by Garrett, Paul M, White, Joshua P, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Kashima, Yoshihisa, Perfors, Andrew, Little, Daniel R, Geard, Nic, Mitchell, Lewis, Tomko, Martin, Dennis, Simon

“…In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Governments are instituting mobile tracking technologies to perform rapid contact tracing. However, these…”
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Explainable models for forecasting the emergence of political instability by Baillie, Emma, Howe, Piers D L, Perfors, Andrew, Miller, Tim, Kashima, Yoshihisa, Beger, Andreas

“…Building on previous research on the use of macroeconomic factors for conflict prediction and using data on political instability provided by the Political…”
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Base rate neglect and conservatism in probabilistic reasoning: Insights from eliciting full distributions by Howe, Piers Douglas Lionel, Perfors, Andrew, Walker, Bradley, Kashima, Yoshihisa, Fay, Nicolas

“…Abstract Bayesian statistics offers a normative description for how a person should combine their original beliefs (i.e., their priors) in light of new…”
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Impression formation stimuli: A corpus of behavior statements rated on morality, competence, informativeness, and believability by Mickelberg, Amy, Walker, Bradley, Ecker, Ullrich K H, Howe, Piers, Perfors, Andrew, Fay, Nicolas

“…To investigate impression formation, researchers tend to rely on statements that describe a person's behavior (e.g., "Alex ridicules people behind their…”
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Papers Please - Predictive Factors of National and International Attitudes Toward Immunity and Vaccination Passports: Online Representative Surveys by Garrett, Paul M, White, Joshua P, Dennis, Simon, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Yang, Cheng-Ta, Okan, Yasmina, Perfors, Andrew, Little, Daniel R, Kozyreva, Anastasia, Lorenz-Spreen, Philipp, Kusumi, Takashi, Kashima, Yoshihisa

“…Background In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are introducing digital passports that allow citizens to return to normal activities if they were…”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of different perceptual training methods in a difficult visual discrimination task with ultrasound images by Marris, Jessica E., Perfors, Andrew, Mitchell, David, Wang, Wayland, McCusker, Mark W., Lovell, Timothy John Haynes, Gibson, Robert N., Gaillard, Frank, Howe, Piers D. L.

“…Recent work has shown that perceptual training can be used to improve the performance of novices in real-world visual classification tasks with medical images,…”
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Predictive Processing, Rational Constructivism, and Bayesian Models of Development: Commentary by Perfors, Andrew

“…This is a commentary for a special issue on predictive processing and rational constructivist models of development. Mainly I use the opportunity to ask a…”
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The Role of Stimulus‐Specific Perceptual Fluency in Statistical Learning by Perfors, Andrew, Kidd, Evan

“…Humans have the ability to learn surprisingly complicated statistical information in a variety of modalities and situations, often based on relatively little…”
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Ideology, communication and polarization by Kashima, Yoshihisa, Perfors, Andrew, Ferdinand, Vanessa, Pattenden, Elle

“…Ideologically committed minds form the basis of political polarization, but ideologically guided communication can further entrench and exacerbate polarization…”
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On simplicity and emergence by Perfors, Andrew

“…Mark Johnson’s paper centres around a provocative and sensible point: the simplicity of a change in evolutionary terms does not necessarily map…”
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Inductive reasoning in humans and large language models by Han, Simon Jerome, Ransom, Keith J., Perfors, Andrew, Kemp, Charles

“…The impressive recent performance of large language models has led many to wonder to what extent they can serve as models of general intelligence or are…”
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Visual and Affective Multimodal Models of Word Meaning in Language and Mind by De Deyne, Simon, Navarro, Danielle J., Collell, Guillem, Perfors, Andrew

“…One of the main limitations of natural language‐based approaches to meaning is that they do not incorporate multimodal representations the way humans do. In…”
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Ambiguity attitudes in qualitative contexts: The role of prior beliefs by White, Joshua P., Perfors, Andrew

“…Most studies of ambiguity aversion rely on experimental paradigms involving monetary bets. Thus, the extent to which ambiguity aversion occurs outside of such…”
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SAYCam: A Large, Longitudinal Audiovisual Dataset Recorded From the Infant’s Perspective by Sullivan, Jessica, Mei, Michelle, Perfors, Andrew, Wojcik, Erica, Frank, Michael C.

“…We introduce a new resource: the SAYCam corpus. Infants aged 6–32 months wore a head-mounted camera for approximately 2 hr per week, over the course of…”
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Changing your mind about the data: Updating sampling assumptions in inductive inference by Hayes, Brett K., Pham, Joshua, Lee, Jaimie, Perfors, Andrew, Ransom, Keith, Desai, Saoirse Connor

“…When people use samples of evidence to make inferences, they consider both the sample contents and how the sample was generated (“sampling assumptions”). The…”
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What Do Our Sampling Assumptions Affect: How We Encode Data or How We Reason From It? by Ransom, Keith J., Perfors, Andrew, Hayes, Brett K., Connor Desai, Saoirse

“…In describing how people generalize from observed samples of data to novel cases, theories of inductive inference have emphasized the learner's reliance on the…”
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Epistemic trust: modeling children's reasoning about others' knowledge and intent by Shafto, Patrick, Eaves, Baxter, Navarro, Daniel J., Perfors, Amy

“…A core assumption of many theories of development is that children can learn indirectly from other people. However, indirect experience (or testimony) is not…”
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Category Clustering and Morphological Learning by Mansfield, John, Saldana, Carmen, Hurst, Peter, Nordlinger, Rachel, Stoll, Sabine, Bickel, Balthasar, Perfors, Andrew

“…Inflectional affixes expressing the same grammatical category (e.g., subject agreement) tend to appear in the same morphological position in the word. We…”
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