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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... diagnosticity measures have serious flaws ( Nelson , 2005 ) . One flaw is that Bayesian diagnosticity and log diagnosticity are unbounded , and consider a question to be infinitely useful if there is any probability that its answer will ...
... diagnosticity 706.7600 1.0000 801.0000 801.0000 1.0000 log10 diagnosticity 2.5616 0.0000 Note : See Table 7.3 for the probability of each combination of feature values . 2.9036 0.0000 2.9036 obtained information . If the learners use ...
... diagnosticity measures ? Nelson ( 2005 ) argued that Bayesian diagnosticity and log diagnosticity are poor theo- retical models of the utility of information , and are not needed to explain empirical data . Perhaps because those ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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