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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... associated with a potential function , which varies as the associated random variables take on different values . When multiplied together , these potential functions give the probability distribution over all the vari- ables . Unlike ...
... associated outcome must be considered . The probability of a ' bad thing ' ( no matter how large ) will always be less favourable than the probability of a ' good thing ' ( no mat- ter how small ) . Our rules for discriminating between ...
... associated random variable x , taking value x = 0 if the word w is generated via the topic route , and value x = 1 if the word is generated as a special - word route . The variable x acts as a switch . If x = 0 , the standard topic ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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