Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index.
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Prelude: a double inheritance, a single question -- Bayes and bias -- Wish come true -- Fear materialized -- The familiarity fallacy -- The proximity trap -- Less is more -- Utopia -- a world without bias -- Coda: the pleasure of prediction error.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In this engaging, even lyrical, book, Jan Lauwereyns examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making, using 'bias' as his core concept rather than the more common but noncommittal terms 'selection' and 'attention'.