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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... algorithm ( Dempster et al . , 1977 ) . Imagine we have a model for data x that has parameters 0 , and latent variables y . A mixture model is one example of such a model , in which the distribution of X , is assumed to be a mixture of ...
... algorithm is to process sequences of observations in order to induce a hypothesis . The hypothesis space of the algorithm can also be viewed as a model class . A model is simply a parameterized family of hypotheses , were each ...
... algorithm that satisfies these desiderata . We will refer to this algorithm as the local MAP algorithm , as it involves assigning each stimulus to the cluster that has the highest posterior probability given the previous assignments ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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