TY  - GEN
AU  - Chater, Nick [ed.]
AU  - Oaksford, Mike [ed.]
TI  - The probabilistic mind: prospects for bayesian cognitive science
SN  - 9780199216093
U1  - 153 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Cognitive science
KW  - Cognitive psychology
N2  - 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 b
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