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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... gambles and the pooled variance across the two options , can help explain how changes in our environment of gambles would influence the amplification effect . For example , what would happen if the gambles in each problem of our ...
... gambles . They had to wager on what they could eat , what they could capture , what could capture them , and whom they could trust , to name just a few ( see Buss , 2005 , for many others gambles ) . In light of the many dicey choices ...
... gambles and guessed they would , on average , earn 2,390 points . If instead , they had access to the gamble ... gambles and being content with limited knowledge rather than allocating resources to just a few selected gambles ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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