Sentences with phrase «categorisation by elimination»

Todd and Philip Blythe, another member of the Max Planck team, showed people virtual bugs on a computer screen that were programmed to suggest various intentions by exhibiting different cues — such as their speed and whether they moved in a straight line or meandered — to test a heuristic called Categorisation By Elimination.

With just half the available cues, Categorisation By Elimination correctly predicted two - thirds of the intentions — similar to the success rate of a trained human observer.