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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... options receive a higher share than the extreme options and that this effect is larger at high separation ( by 21 % ) . Interestingly , a similar pattern is found in the binary choice ( Experiment 1B ) , where participants chose the option ...
... option , and in some of the cases , following the participant's choice , announce that the option chosen is unavailable but a speeded choice is possible ( under deadline ) for one of the other two options . The idea is that , if the ...
... option more than they chose the extreme options ( t ( 142 ) = 7.185 , p < 0.001 ) . The fraction of choices made after a first choice , which was an extreme option announced to be unavailable is shown in the right panel . One can see ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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