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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... context as one whose meaning context gives the disputed construction a high probability of occurring . In the case of entrenchment , the fact that the verb in question has occurred , again , marks out the context as one in which that ...
... context and from long - term memory . Accumulators track the favourable comparisons between each prospect , with the ... context does . Table 12.3 shows the subjective attribute values resulting from comparisons with the immediate ...
... context factor 332 context - free grammar 509 context - free implication normal form ( INF ) grammar 381-2 context sensitive induction 200-2 contextual - preference reversal 278 contingency : inferred 171 learning 19-20 , 494–7 ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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