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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... learners . Both features present case . The vast majority of the time , exactly one feature is present , such that the learner becomes almost certain of the true category once the presence or absence of each feature is known ( Table 7.3 ) ...
... learners use impact , Bayesian diagnosticity , or log diag- nosticity , they do not equally value that information , even on average . Suppose the learners were to use Bayesian diagnosticity . For the sequential learner , the total ...
... learners correctly generated the correlations implied by the dif- ferent causal models . In the common - effect condition in Study 1 , learners were pre- sented with a common - effect model with a single effect and alternative causes ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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