The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive ScienceThe 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 The Probabilistic Mind will be valuable for psychologists and philosophers interested in cognition. |
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The robust experimental finding is that participants are more likely to accept the treatment option when it is described in the ' survival ' frame than when it is described in the ' mortality ' frame ( Marteau , 1989 ; McNeil et al .
For example , a football team with unusually dramatic and interesting victories and run - of - the - mill losses is , we suspect , more likely to be described in terms of its win rate than a team with ordinary victories and spectacular ...
Decisions from description and decisions from experience If the Wason selection task is , as psychologists ' wisdom has it ... Herein he described a person who tenders successive choices between four independent prospects , which are ...
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Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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