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Bejjanki VR, Aslin RN. Optimal, resource-rational or sub-optimal? Insights from cognitive development. Behav Brain Sci. 2020;43:e4doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19001614.
Bejjanki, V. R., & Aslin, R. N. (2020). Optimal, resource-rational or sub-optimal? Insights from cognitive development. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 43e4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19001614
Bejjanki, Vikranth R, and Aslin, Richard N. "Optimal, resource-rational or sub-optimal? Insights from cognitive development." The Behavioral and brain sciences vol. 43 (2020): e4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19001614
Bejjanki VR, Aslin RN. Optimal, resource-rational or sub-optimal? Insights from cognitive development. Behav Brain Sci. 2020 Mar 11;43:e4. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19001614. PMID: 32159470.
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Behav Brain Sci. 2020 Mar 11;43:e4. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19001614.

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

The Behavioral and brain sciences

Vikranth R Bejjanki, Richard N Aslin

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  1. Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Hamilton College, Clinton, [email protected]://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/bejjanki-rao.
  2. Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT06511. [email protected]://haskinslabs.org/people/richard-aslin.

PMID: 32159470 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X19001614

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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