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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... cues such as temperature , humidity , and the time of year . Or , we may have to judge whether someone is telling the truth from cues such as pitch of voice , level of eye contact , and rate of eye blinks . While informa- tive , these cues ...
... cues . Hammond et al . ( 1966 ) formulated the lens model in statistical terms , and proposed it as a general framework for judgement analysis . Since then , the lens model has been a standard tool in the study of multiple cue ...
... cues . In other words , the outcome is assumed to be a function of the additive combination of the individual cue validities . The resulting values for z can be found in Table 18.1 , and the associated cue validities are v = ( −2.10 ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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