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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... possible for experimenters to somehow magically endow their subjects with knowledge that A , or alternatively with knowledge that B - but this is not possible . In the typical framing experiment , the participant knows that A , assuming ...
... possible configurations . Klauer ( 1999 ) and Perham and Oaksford ( 2005 ) used a similar approach to fitting models to data from Wason's ( 1968 ) selection task . This is an important change because from the same experiment , 16 rather ...
... possible circumstances . Thus , it is ill - prepared to account for failures and strategy - based restrictions of human and nonhuman learning , and it overestimates the complexity of reasoning in biological systems . Causal Bayes net ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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