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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... relation ( Batterman , 2002 ; Nickles , 1973 ; Rueger , 2001 ) . However , limiting case implementation seems to be too strong to use as a general understanding of ' implementation , ' since it requires the intertheoretic connection to ...
... relation weights against the number of observed labels . We see a clear feature - to - relation transition : early in learning fea- tures are of primary importance , as observations accumulate relations become more important , and ...
... relations , such as the relation between barometers and the weather . Barometers covary with the weather as does smoking with heart disease . However , the first relation is spurious due to a common cause , atmos- pheric pressure ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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