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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Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive Science Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford. Topic models Topic models such as PLSI and LDA are based upon the idea that documents are mix- tures of topics , where a topic is a probability distribution over words . A ...
Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive Science Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford. Topic 32 Topic 41 Topic 543 Topic 816 Topic 1321 Topic 1253 VEGETABLES TOOLS FARMERS MEAT NUTRIENTS PLANTS FRUITS TOOL POTATOES CUTTING FRUIT POTATO HAND CUT CROPS ...
... topic model . We encoded the outlier and control lists with the dual - route topic model . To sim- plify the simulations , we used the same 1,500 topics illustrated in Fig . 15.2 that were derived by the standard topic model . We ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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