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The importance of constraints on constraints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Christopher J. Bates ,
Chris R. Sims  and
Robert A. Jacobs Open the ORCID record for Robert A. Jacobs [Opens in a new window]
Christopher J. Bates
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY14627. cjbates@ur.rochester.edurjacobs@ur.rochester.eduhttp://www2.bcs.rochester.edu/sites/cbates/http://www2.bcs.rochester.edu/sites/jacobslab/
Chris R. Sims
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY12180. simsc3@rpi.eduhttp://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~simsc3/contact.html
Robert A. Jacobs
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY14627. cjbates@ur.rochester.edurjacobs@ur.rochester.eduhttp://www2.bcs.rochester.edu/sites/cbates/http://www2.bcs.rochester.edu/sites/jacobslab/
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Abstract

The “resource-rational” approach is ambitious and worthwhile. A shortcoming of the proposed approach is that it fails to constrain what counts as a constraint. As a result, constraints used in different cognitive domains often have nothing in common. We describe an alternative framework that satisfies many of the desiderata of the resource-rational approach, but in a more disciplined manner.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e3
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