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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... example , for any sequence of heads and tails , we can always find a value of ✪ that would give higher probability to that sequence than the hypothesis that 0 = 0.5 . It seems like a complex hypothesis would thus have a big advantage ...
Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive Science Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford. some examples will suffice to illustrate the sorts of situations that framing researchers seek to understand : Example 1 : Evaluating a Medical Treatment . Participants ...
... example , this means that learning that Tweety is a bird does not alter your degree of belief in the conditional if x is a bird , x flies . Although MP is p - valid it is only valid in a restricted sense because strengthening of the ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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