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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... statistical cues that may underpin aspects of the acquisition of aspects of phonology , syntax and semantics . For example , statistical analysis of the contexts in which words occur can be used to classify them into syntactic classes ...
... statistical properties of natural images , and argue that the resulting predictions frequently depart from the predictions of the Bayesian analysis ; and that the rank - based statistical analysis better fits the psychophysical data ...
... Statistical language learning . Cambridge , MA : MIT Press . Charniak , E. , Hendrickson , C. , Jacobson , N. , & Perkowitz , M. ( 1993 ) . Equations for part - of - speech tagging . In Proceedings of the tenth national conference on ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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