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Enlightenment grows from fundamentals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2011

Daniel Joseph Navarro  and
Amy Francesca Perfors
Daniel Joseph Navarro
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. [email protected]@adelaide.edu.auhttp://www.psychology.adelaide.edu.au/personalpages/staff/danielnavarro/http://www.psychology.adelaide.edu.au/personalpages/staff/amyperfors/
Amy Francesca Perfors
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. [email protected]@adelaide.edu.auhttp://www.psychology.adelaide.edu.au/personalpages/staff/danielnavarro/http://www.psychology.adelaide.edu.au/personalpages/staff/amyperfors/
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Abstract

Jones & Love (J&L) contend that the Bayesian approach should integrate process constraints with abstract computational analysis. We agree, but argue that the fundamentalist/enlightened dichotomy is a false one: Enlightened research is deeply intertwined with – and to a large extent is impossible without – the basic, fundamental work upon which it is based.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , August 2011 , pp. 207 - 208
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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