{"pk":30157,"title":"Do Models Capture Individuals?Evaluating Parameterized Models for Syllogistic Reasoning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The prevailing focus on aggregated data and the lacking group-to-individual generalizability it entails have recently been iden-tified as a major cause for the low performance of cognitivemodels in the field of syllogistic reasoning research. This arti-cle attempts to add to the discussion about the performance ofcurrent syllogistic reasoning models by considering the param-eterization capabilities some cognitive models offer. To thisend, we propose a model evaluation setting targeted specifi-cally toward analyzing the capabilities of a model to fine-tuneits inferential mechanisms to individual human reasoning data.This allows us to (1) quantify the degree to which models areable to capture individual human reasoning behavior, (2) ana-lyze the efficiency of the parameters used by models, and (3)examine the functional differences between the prediction ca-pabilities of competing models on a more detailed level. Weapply this method to two state-of-the-art models for syllogisticreasoning, mReasoner and the Probability Heuristics Model,analyze the obtained results and discuss their implication withrespect to the general field of cognitive modeling.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cognitive modeling; syllogistic reasoning; mentalmodels; probabilistic heuristics model; individualization"}],"section":"Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wt392tj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nicolas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Riesterer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Freiburg","department":""},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brand","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Freiburg","department":""},{"first_name":"Marco","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ragni","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Freiburg","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30157/galley/20011/download/"}]}