creators_name: Funke, Joachim type: journalp datestamp: 2001-03-17 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:36 metadata_visibility: show title: Dynamic systems as tools for analysing human judgement ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: dynamic systems, finite state automata, complex problem solving, decision making abstract: With the advent of computers in the experimental labs, dynamic systems have become a new tool for research on problem solving and decision making. A short review on this research is given and the main features of these systems (connectivity and dynamics) are illustrated. To allow systematic approaches to the influential variables in this area, two formal frameworks (linear structural equations and finite state automata) are presented. 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