Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 03  

Open Peer Commentary

Why the empirical literature fails to support or disconfirm modular or dual-process models

David Trafimowa1

a1 Department of Psychology, MSC 3452, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001. dtrafimo@nmsu.edu http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/faculty/trafimow.html

Abstract

Barbey & Sloman (B&S) present five models that account for performance in Bayesian inference tasks, and argue that the data disconfirm four of them but support one model. Contrary to B&S, I argue that the cited data fail to provide strong confirmation or disconfirmation for any of the models.

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