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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... words . A topic model is a generative model for documents : it specifies a simple probabilistic procedure by which ... words w given a specific topic t . In a standard topic model , the distribution of words in document d can be ...
... words contained semantic themes related to vegetables and farming . However , this encoding would not allow accurate reconstruction of the specific words that were presented . If we use ( 3 ) to reconstruct the list with these topic ...
... word distribution that has a single hyperparameter for all words , we used a prior with hyperparameter values that were higher for words that are pres- ent on the list than for words that were absent ( 0.001 and 0.0001 , respectively ) ...
Contents
prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science | 3 |
A primer on probabilistic inference | 33 |
Rational analyses instrumentalism and implementations | 59 |
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