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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... utility units , and presence of the hula hoop is worth 0.14 utility units . But how do we calculate the usefulness of the hula question ? We could average the usefulness of the two answers , e.g. ( 0.33 +0.14 ) / 2 = 0.24 . However ...
... utility ( at left ) as a function of the utility and probability of its possible answers ( at right ) . question is worth , we check how much weight needs to be placed 100 cm to the left of the fulcrum to balance it : in this case ...
... utility theory , each monetary amount should be trans- formed into a utility and then the prospect with the higher expected ( average ) utility should be preferred . The function relating money to utility is typically concave , with ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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