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    "pk": 25839,
    "title": "Learning of bimodally distributed quantities",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Previous research has shown that people are able to use distributional\ninformation about the environment to make inferences.\nHowever, how people learn these probability distributions is\nless well understood, especially for those that are not normal\nor unimodal. In this paper we focus on how people learn probability\ndistributions that are bimodal. We examined on how\nthe distance between the two peaks of a bimodal distribution\nand the numbers of observations influence how participants\nlearn each distribution, using two types of stimuli with different\ndegrees of perceptual noise. Overall, participants were able to\nlearn the various distributions quickly and accurately. However,\ntheir performance is moderated by stimuli type—whether participants\nwere learning a distribution over numbers (low noise)\nor over sizes of circles (high noise). This work suggests that although\npeople are able to quickly learn a variety of distributions,\nmany factors may influence their performance.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "probability distributions; learning; subjective belief;\nintuitive statistics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sc6x29w",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Saiwing",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yeung",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Beijing Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Whalen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of St Andrews",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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