The probabilistic mind : prospects for Bayesian cognitive science
Oaksford, MContributor
Chater, NickContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
'The Probabilistic Mind' 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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
'The Probabilistic Mind' 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Foundations. The probabilistic mind : prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science / Nick Chater & Mike Oaksford -- A primer on probabilistic inference / Thomas L. Griffiths & Alan Yuille -- Rational analyses, instrumentalism, and implementations / David Danks -- pt. 2. Inference and argument. Framing effects and rationality / Shlomi Sher & Craig R.M. McKenzie -- Probability logic and the Modus Ponens- Modus Tollens asymmetry in conditional inference / Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater -- Inference from absence in language and thought / Ulrike Hahn & Mike Oaksford -- Towards a rational theory of human information acquisition / Jonathan Nelson -- Pseudocontingencies : a key paradigm for understanding adaptive cognition / Klaus Fiedler -- pt. 3. Judgement and decision-making. Bayesian brains and cognitive mechanisms : harmony or dissonance? / Henry Brighton & Gerd Gigerenzer -- The game of life : how small samples render choice simple / Ralph Hertwig & Timothy J. Pleskac -- The naïve intuitive statistician : organism-environment relations from yet another angle / Patrik Hansson, Peter Juslin & Anders Winman -- A decision-by-sampling account of decision under risk / Neil Stewart & Keith Simpson -- The neurodynamics of choice, value-based decisions and preference reversal / Marius Usher, Anat Elhalal & James L. McClelland -- pt. 4. Categorization and memory. Categorization as nonparametric Bayesian density estimation / Thomas L. Griffiths ... [et al.] -- Rational analysis as a link between human memory and information retrieval / Mark Steyvers & Thomas L. Griffiths -- Causality in time : explaining away the future and the past / David E. Huber -- Compositionality in rational analysis : grammar-based induction for concept learning / Noah D. Goodman ... [et al.] -- pt. 5. Learning about contingency and causality. Through the lookingglass : a dynamic lens model approach to multiple cue probability learning / Maarten Speekenbrink & David R. Shanks -- Semi-rational models of conditioning: the case of trial order / Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville & Peter Dayan -- Causal learning in rats and humans : a minimal rational model / Michael R. Waldmann ... [et al.] -- The value of rational analysis : an assessment of causal reasoning and learning / Steven Sloman & Philip M. Fernbach -- The probabilistic mind : where next? / Nick Chater & Mike Oaksford.
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