TY - JOUR
T1 - Explanation versus accommodation
T2 - Reply to Bowers (2010)
AU - Norris, Dennis
AU - Kinoshita, Sachiko
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Bowers (2010) presented a critique of the account of masked priming presented by Norris and Kinoshita (2008) based on the Bayesian Reader model of visual word recognition (Norris, 2006). In this reply, we point out that: (1) Bowers' criticisms are based on his misunderstanding of both the Bayesian or ideal-observer approach, and the theoretical claims made in Norris and Kinoshita, and (2) Bowers' alternative account of the key data presented in Norris and Kinoshita relies on a series of ad hoc assumptions that are combined in different proportions to postdict any pattern of data.
AB - Bowers (2010) presented a critique of the account of masked priming presented by Norris and Kinoshita (2008) based on the Bayesian Reader model of visual word recognition (Norris, 2006). In this reply, we point out that: (1) Bowers' criticisms are based on his misunderstanding of both the Bayesian or ideal-observer approach, and the theoretical claims made in Norris and Kinoshita, and (2) Bowers' alternative account of the key data presented in Norris and Kinoshita relies on a series of ad hoc assumptions that are combined in different proportions to postdict any pattern of data.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78649680804&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09541446.2010.524201
DO - 10.1080/09541446.2010.524201
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:78649680804
SN - 0954-1446
VL - 22
SP - 1261
EP - 1269
JO - European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
JF - European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
IS - 8
ER -