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ArticleComputational brain & behavior2026

Is the "Theory-theory" of Understanding a Mistake? An Interactive Perspective on Knowledge and Explanation.

Simon Myers, Nick Chater

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Article in Computational brain & behavior, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Simon MyersBehavioural Science Group, Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK.
Nick ChaterBehavioural Science Group, Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shiffrin, Stigler, and Keil worry that science frequently falls victim to an illusion of understanding. We take their argument a step further, arguing that psychological scientists often fundamentally mischaracterize human understanding as rooted in internally represented

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PMID42774576
PMCPMC13594051

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