The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive ScienceNick Chater, Mike Oaksford The rational analysis method, first proposed by John R. Anderson, has been enormously influential in helping us understand high-level cognitive processes. The Probabilistic Mind is a follow-up to the influential and highly cited 'Rational Models of Cognition' (OUP, 1998). It brings together developments in understanding how, and how far, high-level cognitive processes can be understood in rational terms, and particularly using probabilistic Bayesian methods. It synthesizes and evaluates the progress in the past decade, taking into account developments in Bayesian statistics, statistical analysis of the cognitive 'environment' and a variety of theoretical and experimental lines of research. The scope of the book is broad, covering important recent work in reasoning, decision making, categorization, and memory. Including chapters from many of the leading figures in this field, The Probabilistic Mind will be valuable for psychologists and philosophers interested in cognition. |
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... method for placing broad priors over probability distributions is the Dirichlet process ( DP ; Ferguson , 1973 ) . The distributions indexed by the Dirichlet process can be expressed as countably infinite mixtures of point masses ...
... Dirichlet process . Observations are divided into groups , and each group is modeled using a Dirichlet process ( with parameter α ) . A new observation is first compared to all of the clusters in its group , with the prior probability ...
... Dirichlet processes . Journal of Mathematical Psychology , 50 , 101–122 . Neal , R. M. ( 1998 ) . Markov chain sampling methods for Dirichlet process mixture models ( Tech . Rep . No. 9815 ) . Department of Statistics , University of ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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