The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive Science

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Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford
Oxford University Press, 2008 - Psychology - 525 pages
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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... present , and f1 and ~ fl are the specific answers that feature 1 is present or not . eu ( F1 ) is the expected utility ( usefulness ) of querying whether or not feature 1 is present ; u ( fl ) and u ( ~ f1 ) are the utility of learning ...
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... present case . The vast majority of the time , exactly one feature is present , such that the learner becomes almost certain of the true category once the presence or absence of each feature is known ( Table 7.3 ) . ( This argues ...
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... present , 0.4 for trials on which card 2 is present , 0.6 for trials on which card 3 is present , and 0.8 for trials on which card 4 is present . Thus , two cards are predictive of rain , one strongly ( card 4 ) , one weakly ( card 3 ) ...

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Contents

prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science
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A primer on probabilistic inference
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Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations
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TitleThe Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive Science
EditorsNick Chater, Mike Oaksford
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOxford University Press, 2008
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized30 Oct 2008
ISBN0199216096, 9780199216093
Length525 pages
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Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
  
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