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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... causal hypotheses , while retaining the view that we go beyond the information given and use covariations along with ... model theory ( Waldmann & Holyoak , 1992 ) whose focus is on more com- plex causal models similarly has stated that ...
... causal models . Model A ( left ) repre- sents a common - cause model in which a common cause ( e.g. , atmospheric pressure ) both causes effect_1 ( e.g. , barometer ) and effect_2 ( e.g. , weather ) . The two direct causal links imply ...
... causal model is compared to the likelihood of the data under an alternative model . The target causal model posits some probability of the effect in the presence of the cause and some probability of the effect in the absence of the ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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