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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... evidence that it is not . In an argument from ignorance , the absence of a proof or evidence to contradict a proposition is taken as establishing that the proposition is true . ( 1 ) seems unaccept- able . In contrast , given that all ...
... evidence to support the usage of both pre- emption and entrenchment by children ( Brooks & Tomasello , 1999 ; Brooks & Zizak , 2002 ; Brooks et al . , 1999 ; Theakston , 2004 ; Ambridge et al , in press ) . This makes a fur- ther ...
... evidence . To illustrate both concepts , they used the fol- lowing example that also involves a decision from experience : [ s ] uppose we wish to evaluate the evidence for the hypothesis that a coin is biased in favor of heads rather ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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