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Rational Models of Cognition
Edited by M. Oaksford and N. Chater
558 pages
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numerous figures and tables
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240x168mm
978-0-19-852415-1
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Hardback
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19 November 1998
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- Represents a new approach to human cognition
- Chapters written by an international group of leading researchers
- Has wide application in many areas of psychology
- Discusses practical aspects of experimental design and limitations
This book explores a new approach to understanding the human mind - rational analysis - that regards thinking as a facility adapted to the structure of the world. This approach is most closely associated with the work of John R Anderson, who published the original book on rational analysis in 1990. Since then, a great deal of work has been carried out in a number of laboratories around the world, and the aim of this book is to bring this work together for the benefit of the general psychological audience. The book contains chapters by some of the world's leading researchers in memory, categorisation, reasoning, and search, who show how the power of
rational analysis can be applied to the central question of how humans think. It will be of interest to students and researchers in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and animal behaviour.Readership: Advanced students and researchers in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and animal behaviour.
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Edited by M. Oaksford, Professor, School of Psychology, University of Cardiff, and N. Chater, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick Contributors:
John R Anderson, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Richard B Anderson, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, USA
Gordon D A Brown, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, USA
Antonio Caño, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Margaret McGonigle, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mark Chappell, Department of Psychology,
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry
Patrician Cheng, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Stephen Chong, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK
Pedro L Cobos, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Andrew M Colman, Department of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK
Matthew J Crocker, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
Simon Dennis, Psychology Department, University of Queensland, Australia
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1: Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater: An introduction to rational models of cognition
Section 1: General Issues
2: James L. McClelland: Connectionist models and Bayesian inference
3: Alex Kacelnik: Normative and descriptive models of decision making: time discounting and risk sensitivity
Section 2: Memory
4: Richard M. Shiffrin & Mark Steyvers: The effectiveness of retrieval from memory
5: Mark Chappell: Predictions of a Bayesian recognition memory model (and a class of mdels including it)
6: Simon Dennis & Michael Humphreys: Cueing for context: an alternative to global matching models of recognition memory
7: Lael J. Schooler: Sorting out core memory processes
8: Richard B. Anderson: Rational and non-rational aspects of forgetting
9: Gordon D.A. Brown & Janet I. Vousden: Adaptive analysis of sequential behaviour: oscillators as rational mechanisms
Section 3: Categorization & Induction
10: John R. Anderson & Michael Matessa: The rational analysis of categorization and the ACT-R architecture
11: Robert M. Nosofsky: Optimum performance and exemplar models of classificaiton
12: Evan Heit: A Bayesian analysis of some forms of inductive reasoning
13: Koen Lambers & Stephen Chong: Dynamics of dimension weight distribution and flexibility in categorization
Section 4: Reasoning
14: Clark Glymour and Patricia Cheng: Causal mechanism and probability: a normative approach
15: Francisco J. Lopóz, Pedro L. Cobos, Antonio Caño & David Shanks: The rational analysis of human contingency judgement
16: Andrew M. Colman: Rationality assumption of game theory and the backward induction paradox
17: Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater: A revised rational analysis of the selection task: exceptions and sequential sampling
18: David Over & Alan Jessop: Rational analysis of causal conditionals and the selection task
19: Elke M. Kurz & Ryan D. Tweney: The practice of mathematics and science: from calculus to the clothesline problem
Section 5: Search
20: Nick Chater, Matthew J. Crocker & Martin J. Pickering: The rational analysis of inquiry: the case of parsing
21: Richard M. Young: Rational analysis of exploratory choice
22: Brendan McGonigle & Margaret McGonigle: Rationality as optimised cognitive self-regulation
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