Abstract The bias–variance tradeoff is a theoretical concept that suggests machine learning algorithms are susceptible to two kinds of error, with some algorithms tending to suffer from one more than the other. In this letter, we claim that the bias–variance tradeoff is a general concept that can be applied to human cognition as well, and […]
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Imagine you’re trying to solve a puzzle. You’re given a sequence of codes, like a secret message, but the catch is that the codes are organized in a hierarchical structure. In this study, researchers wanted to see if people could learn and anticipate the patterns in these sequences, even with minimal information. They used a […]
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