Shubhendu Trivedi shares a paper modeling pigeons as particle filters in reply to Andrew Gordon Wilson, who shares MCMC sampling research on human reasoning

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OPST#1446Shubhendu Trivedi|@_ONIONESQUE

@andrewgwils What did you think of pigeon as a particle filter https://www.princeton.edu/~ndaw/dc07.pdf

9:22 PM · May 18, 2026 View on X

REPLYAG#154Andrew Gordon Wilson|@ANDREWGWILS

@_onionesque Reminds me of this classic: https://cocosci.princeton.edu/tom/papers/mcmcpeople.pdf

STShubhendu Trivedi@_onionesque

@andrewgwils What did you think of pigeon as a particle filter https://www.princeton.edu/~ndaw/dc07.pdf

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