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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... natural Bayesian interpretation of this type of phenomena is that the percep- tual system is attempting to factor out the properties of the light source , and to represent only the reflectance function of the surface of the patch ( i.e. ...
... natural mean heuristic , across all gambles . The straight line represents the average description difference ( 15.2 ) . Assuming the natu- ral mean heuristic , small samples substantially amplify the difference between gam- bles . For ...
... Natural mean --- Bayes quick Bayes slow Prospect theory 20 25 Fig . 10.4 . Choice proportions across 1,000 pairs of gambles of the deck with the higher expected value as a function of sample size ( per deck ) for the four choice rules ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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