the literatures of machine pattern recognition ( Rosenfeld &
Pfaltz, 1966) and human decision making ( Dawes, 1979). Thus, cognitive tasks as
diverse as digital picture processing and medical diagnosis seem to require
rules for the integration of information from independent sequential
decisions. Pigeon cognition, too, appears to use the logic of sequential
decision making.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This research was supported by Grant No. A01382 from the Natural Science and
Engineering Council of Canada. Rainer von Konigslow is a Senior Consultant at AES Data,
Ltd., Montreal, Quebec. We thank Gordon Bower, Susan Brown, and Kathy Martin for their
thoughtful criticism of earlier versions of this chapter.
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Book title: Animal Cognition:Proceedings of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Conference, June 2-4, 1982.
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