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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... response ( Hastie et al . , 2001 ) . Our analysis of simple heuristics , and how they perform in comparison to models carrying out more intensive forms of processing , relies on the use of rational princi- ples as model selection ...
... response , or response - rate ) depends on the response - rule and the way in which the evidence is integrated . A variety of models have been proposed to account for rich data patterns that involve not only accuracy and mean - RTs but ...
... response is not an allowed prediction . For responses R , = { 0,1 } in the same set as the criterion , squared loss is identical to 0-1 loss , and the optimal prediction is as in ( 11 ) , which can be restated as = So if m , < .5 ( or ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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