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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... parameters of the conditional probability model are likely to be small and biased ( Fiedler & Juslin , 2006 ) . For example , corpus analysis underlying the Decision by Sampling model ( Stewart et al . [ 2006 ] ) revealed that it is not ...
... parameters that best characterize the instances labeled as belonging to that category . The prototype is specified by these parameters , with the centroid being an appropriate estimate for distributions whose parameters characterize ...
... parameter λ , was esti- mated for each participant . As before , parameters η and λ were estimated by maxi- mum likelihood . The results of the model fitting are given in Table 18.2 . This table contains the val- ues of the McFadden ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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