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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... estimate for is the same as the maximum - likelihood estimate , Thus , the posterior Nu +1 H being NH Na + Nr , but the posterior mean is NH Na + N + 2 NT . mean is sensitive to the fact that we might not want to put as much weight in a ...
... Estimate population properties directly from sample distribution ( SSD ) , and translate into required response format a . Interval evaluation Use the proportion in the SSD to estimate the proportion in the population b . Interval ...
... estimate an interval that covers a certain central propor- tion of the OED . If , for example , the limits 1 and 6 million cover 90 % of the values in the SSD , this is taken as evidence that these limits also cover 90 % of the values ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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