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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... concepts as definitional ( Markman & Stilwell , 2001 ) or rule - like ( Gentner & Kurtz , 2005 ) , than they are for feature - based concepts . Perhaps then a concept language , like that developed above , may be especially useful for ...
... concept has a twin with the other type . Though we have been speaking of role - governed and feature - based as though they were strictly different types of concept , most concepts which can be expressed in this language mix concepts ...
... concept given a sufficient number observed labels ( this limit - convergence is a standard property of Bayesian models ) . It is more interesting to examine the learning behavior in the case of an ill - defined role - governed concept ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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