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Developmental Science 10:3 (2007), pp 307–321 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00585.x Blackwell Publishing Ltd BAYESIAN SPECIAL SECTION Learning overhypotheses with hierarchical Bayesian models Charles Kemp, Amy Perfors and Joshua B. Tenenbaum Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Abstract Inductive learning is impossible without overhypotheses, or constraints on the hypotheses considered by the learner. Some of these overhypotheses must be innate, but we s