---
title: "Falk Lieder"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Falk Lieder"
aliases: ["F. Lieder"]
first_seen: "2026-07-12T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["resource-rational analysis","bounded optimality","rational analysis (Anderson)","computational rationality"]
---


Cognitive scientist, co-originator (with [[entity-thomas-griffiths|Thomas L.
Griffiths]]) of [[entity-resource-rational-analysis|resource-rational
analysis]], the paradigm that explains human cognition as the optimal use of
limited computational resources (Lieder & Griffiths, *Behavioral and Brain
Sciences* 43, e1, 2020). He leads the Rationality Enhancement group (MPI for
Intelligent Systems, Tübingen). He is the lead author of the primary the vault
read directly to resolve whether resource-rational analysis bridges Werbos's ADP
and Anderson's rational analysis.

## References
- [[claim-resource-rational-analysis-extends-andersons-rational-analysis]]
- [[claim-resource-rational-analysis-descends-from-bounded-optimality-not-werbos-adp]]
- [[claim-resource-rational-analysis-formalizes-utility-minus-compute-cost]]
- [[observation-resource-rational-analysis-confirms-anderson-leg-not-werbos-leg]]