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Optimal, resource-rational or sub-optimal? Insights from cognitive development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Vikranth R. Bejjanki Open the ORCID record for Vikranth R. Bejjanki [Opens in a new window]  and
Richard N. Aslin
Vikranth R. Bejjanki
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Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY13323bejjanki@hamilton.eduhttps://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/bejjanki-rao
Richard N. Aslin
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Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT06511. richard.aslin@yale.eduhttps://haskinslabs.org/people/richard-aslin
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Abstract

We agree with the authors regarding the utility of viewing cognition as resulting from an optimal use of limited resources. Here, we advocate for extending this approach to the study of cognitive development, which we feel provides particularly powerful insight into the debate between bounded optimality and true sub-optimality, precisely because young children have limited computational and cognitive resources.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e4
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