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Morten H. Christiansen,Nick Chater
The Language Game overturns established thought, showing how our language derives from the chaos of improvisation rather than from a built-in grammar or language instinct Drawing on wonderfully entertaining and…
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Thomas L. Griffiths, Nick Chater
"The definitive work on the Bayesian approach to Cognitive Science and an important work in understanding the mind and the brain"--
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What is language? Why do we have it? Where does it come from? Why does that matter? The Language Game draws on a fascinating range of examples to show the…
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Nick Chater
In a radical reinterpretation of how the mind works, an eminent behavioral scientist reveals the illusion of mental depth Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation…
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In a radical reinterpretation of how the mind works, an eminent behavioral scientist reveals the illusion of mental depth.
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A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works - and why it could change your life
We all like to think we have a hidden inner life. Most of us…
A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law.
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The essays in this work focus on problems with logic-based approaches to human reasoning and show how a probablistic approach can provide a more psychologically plausible, computationally viable and philosophically…
The essays in this work focus on problems with logic-based approaches to human reasoning, showing how a probablistic approach can provide a more psychologically plausible, computationally viable and philosophically respectable…
Mike Oaksford,Nick Chater
Suggesting that the Western conception of the mind as a logical system is flawed, this work re-appraises the conventional wisdom in the psychology of reasoning. It argues that cognition should…
‘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…
The conditional, if…then, is probably the most important term in natural language and forms the core of systems of logic and mental representation. Cognition and Conditionals is the first volume…
Available together for the first time this collection presents the major influential works published in judgement and decision making over the last 50 years.
Setting forth the state of the art, leading researchers present a survey on the fast-developing field of Connectionist Psycholinguistics: using connectionist or neural networks, which are inspired by brain architecture…
Morten H Christiansen,Nick Chater
Forget the language instinct–this is the story of how we make up language as we go
Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity–and one that remains poorly understood. In The…
Nick Chater,Alexander Clark,Amy Perfors,John A. Goldsmith
This book explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. Written by four researchers in linguistics, psychology, computer science, and cognitive science, it sheds light on the problems…
Morten H. Christiansen (Professor, Cornell University),Nick Chater (Professor of Behavioural Science, The University of Warwick)
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.
