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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... shows log posterior odds in favor of h1 , the hypothesis that the probability of heads ( 0 ) is drawn from a uniform distribution on [ 0,1 ] , over ho , the hypothesis that the probability of heads is 0.5 . The horizontal axis shows the ...
... shows the same comparison for the non - compensatory environment . Now the other methods outperform Take The Best across the majority of sample sizes . These two environments illustrate how the performance of the process is determined ...
... shows this reduction in the skew for Problem 2 . Comparing the bottom panel to the top panel shows that the skew systematically decreases as sample size increases . The other two factors that determine the amplifica- tion effect ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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