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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... samples from the distribution P ( x ) . These samples enable us to estimate properties of the distribution such as the most probable state or the aver- age state . The results of an MCMC algorithm ( in this case , Gibbs sampling ) for ...
... Gibbs sampling and particle filtering . These algorithms are less sensitive to order and are asymptotically guaranteed to produce accurate predic- tions . Both are Monte Carlo methods , in which the intractable sum over partitions is ...
... Gibbs sampler can be used in the same way as samples N in Equation 17 . The Gibbs sampler differs from the local MAP algorithm in two ways . First , it involves sequentially revisiting the cluster assignments of all objects many times ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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