An Introduction to Good Practices in Cognitive Modeling

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Heathcote, A., Brown, S.D. & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2015) 'An Introduction to Good Practices in Cognitive Modeling', in Forstmann, B.U. & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (eds.) *An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience*. New York: Springer, pp. 25–48. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2236-9_2.

Methodological chapter setting out five sanity checks for cognitive process modeling (parameter recovery, selective influence, parameter uncertainty, model fit, model selection), illustrated with evidence accumulation models. Compiled into [[cognitive-model-validation]].

**Pagination note.** This RAW file is the author preprint from ejwagenmakers.com, internally numbered 1–24; the published chapter runs orig. pp. 25–48. Hence **orig. page = PDF page + 24** (PDF p. 1 = orig. p. 25). Locators in the Wiki article give both.

**Routing note.** Cognitive process modeling of decision/RT behaviour (diffusion, LBA) sits in this KB because the KB's focus is inferring unobservable cognitive states from observable behaviour — the chapter's own framing. Cross-relevant to artificial-intelligence-kb (computational modeling) and human-centered-design-kb (decision-making). This KB owns the source; others should link rather than duplicate.

```bibtex
@incollection{heathcote2015goodpractices,
  author    = {Heathcote, Andrew and Brown, Scott D. and Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan},
  title     = {An Introduction to Good Practices in Cognitive Modeling},
  booktitle = {An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience},
  editor    = {Forstmann, Birte U. and Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York, NY},
  year      = {2015},
  pages     = {25--48},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-1-4939-2236-9_2}
}
```

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