---
title: "Henry Brighton"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Henry Brighton"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-02T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Gerd Gigerenzer","take-the-best","cross-validation","ecological rationality","recognition heuristic"]
seek_code_commit: "f2cca7f"
---


Cognitive scientist and frequent [[entity-gerd-gigerenzer|Gigerenzer]] co-author,
credited with the 2006 cross-validation reanalysis that reportedly reversed Chater,
Oaksford, Nakisa & Redington's 2003 verdict against take-the-best, and co-author of
"Homo Heuristicus" (2009) and its 2011 methodological reply to Hilbig & Richter. He
matters to the vault as the central named figure whose unreplied-to 2006 critique this
whole corroboration thread turns on — and whose own AAAI 2006 paper, on direct
inspection, does not contain the specific city-population reanalysis it is cited for,
leaving the primary source of the reversal claim still unlocated.

## References
- [[claim-brighton-2006-reanalysis-reversed-take-the-best-result-against-chater-oaksford]] · [[claim-brighton-2006-aaai-paper-does-not-contain-city-population-reanalysis]] · [[claim-no-chater-oaksford-reply-to-brighton-2006-reanalysis-located]] · [[claim-hilbig-richter-2011-exchange-unrelated-to-take-the-best-dispute]]
- Captures: 2026-07-31-are-gigerenzers-ecological-rationality-and-oaksford-chaters-rational, 2026-08-02-did-the-chateroaksford-camp-reply-to-brightons-2006