Workflow

Research practice with jaxcmr

This section goes beyond the API to cover research workflow and tooling.

The Modeling Cycle

Computational modeling research typically follows this cycle:

  1. Identify a research question - What behavioral phenomenon needs explanation?
  2. Identify a mechanism - What cognitive process could produce this behavior?
  3. Implement the mechanism - Add it to a model as a new component or parameter
  4. Validate the mechanism - Use parameter sensitivity analysis to verify it behaves as expected
  5. Fit to data - Optimize parameters to maximize fit
  6. Evaluate - Does the new mechanism improve fit over baseline?
  7. Iterate or publish - Refine or share findings

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