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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... Markov chain Monte Carlo is based upon the the- ory of Markov chains - sequences of random variables in which each variable is inde- pendent of all of its predecessors given the variable that immediately precedes it ( e.g. , Norris ...
... Markov models Hidden Markov models ( or HMMs ) are an important class of graphical models that have been used for problems such as speech and language processing . For example , in speech recognition a hidden Markov model might be used ...
... Markov condition ) that may be method- ologically useful but may not represent what people and animals actually believe ( see also Cartwright , 2001 , 2004 ) . Thus far , there is little evidence that people assume the Markov condition ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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