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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... mechanism or mechanism - schema by which behavior is shaped and moved towards X , as well as historical evidence that the mechanism was active and relevant . The term ' cognitive mechanism ' is notably absent from this description of an ...
... mechanism or mechanism - schema by which behavior is shaped and moved towards X , as well as historical evidence that the mechanism was active and relevant . The term ' cognitive mechanism ' is notably absent from this description of an ...
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... mechanism - based explanations in terms of an over - simplified picture in which behavior results from cognitive mechanisms proceeding from some initial conditions . This picture is of course highly unrealistic , as it ignores the ...
... mechanism - based explanations in terms of an over - simplified picture in which behavior results from cognitive mechanisms proceeding from some initial conditions . This picture is of course highly unrealistic , as it ignores the ...
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... mechanisms , but the ideal is of strong separation between the rational analysis and implementing mechanism . Rational analyses and instrumentalism The strong agnosticism of rational analyses about cognitive mechanisms means that ...
... mechanisms , but the ideal is of strong separation between the rational analysis and implementing mechanism . Rational analyses and instrumentalism The strong agnosticism of rational analyses about cognitive mechanisms means that ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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