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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... objects. Joan Riviere referred to this explicitly at the 1927 Symposium (Riviere 1927): 'The objects of unconscious phantasies are imagos formed to some extent after the pattern of real people, but not to a material extent on real ...
... object after the latter is created. However, if during conversion we want, for example, to create a forward chain of objects, we need to be able to revisit the new copies of evolved objects. The limbo object solution also does not give ...
... objects than the structures of unstudied ones . Importantly , this priming occurred only when the test objects were possible . Williams and Tarr hypothesize that while some information about possible segments in possible and impossible ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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