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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... tion ( Tu et al . 2005 ) , and interpolation of boundaries ( Feldman , 2001 ; Feldman & Singh , 2005 ) . Moreover , the function of neural mechanisms involved in visual percep- tion has also been given a probabilistic interpretation ...
... tion . More generally , as soon as an organism makes inferences from impoverished data , the variance component of error becomes critical , and one must , to one degree or another , abandon the objective of nonparametric inference . The ...
... tion is improved by iterative ascent ( analogous to E and M steps ) rather than direct application of Bayes ' rule . One online version of such a rule could take the form of inferring the unobserved responsibilities , and then ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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