TY - JOUR
T1 - Recasting a biologically motivated computational model within a Fechnerian and random utility framework
AU - Davis-Stober, Clintin P.
AU - Brown, Nicholas
AU - Park, Sanghyuk
AU - Regenwetter, Michel
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (SES-14-59866, PI: Davis-Stober & SES-14-59699, PI: Regenwetter) and the National Institutes of Health (K25AA024182, PI: Davis-Stober). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health or of the authors’ universities.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - The selective integration model of Tsetsos et al. (2016a) is a biologically motivated computational framework that aims to model intransitive preference and choice. Tsetsos et al. (2016a) concluded that a noisy system can lead to violations of transitivity in otherwise rational agents optimizing a task. We show how their model can be interpreted from a Fechnerian perspective and within a random utility framework. Specifically, we spell out the connection between the selective integration model and two probabilistic models of transitive preference, weak stochastic transitivity and the triangle inequalities, tested by Tsetsos et al. (2016a).
AB - The selective integration model of Tsetsos et al. (2016a) is a biologically motivated computational framework that aims to model intransitive preference and choice. Tsetsos et al. (2016a) concluded that a noisy system can lead to violations of transitivity in otherwise rational agents optimizing a task. We show how their model can be interpreted from a Fechnerian perspective and within a random utility framework. Specifically, we spell out the connection between the selective integration model and two probabilistic models of transitive preference, weak stochastic transitivity and the triangle inequalities, tested by Tsetsos et al. (2016a).
KW - Fechnerian model
KW - Random utility
KW - Selective integration
KW - Triangle inequalities
KW - Weak stochastic transitivity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmp.2016.10.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jmp.2016.10.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006827157
SN - 0022-2496
VL - 77
SP - 156
EP - 164
JO - Journal of Mathematical Psychology
JF - Journal of Mathematical Psychology
ER -