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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... model of catego- rization , of which existing rational models are special cases . This model goes beyond previous unifying models of category learning ( e.g. , Rosseel , 2002 ; Vanpaemel et al . , 2005 ) by providing a rational solution ...
... rational model for the aplysia will surely look different from one for humans . Consequently , we have to be concerned with the possibility of multiple competing rational models that need to be tested and evaluated . Minimal rational models ...
... models are descriptive , not normative . The models include assumptions chosen to fit data , not only to satisfy task constraints or resource limitations , and in that sense have no claim to rationality . Rational frameworks offer a ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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