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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2011 Jun;119(3):325–340. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.009

Figure 17.

Figure 17

Simple skeleton have high prior (left), but fit the shape poorly (low likelihood); complex skeletons (right) have lower prior but fit the shape better (high likelihood). The MAP skeleton (center) maximizes the product of prior and likelihood, and is “just right.”