Rational models of cognition

1. An introduction to rational models of cognition Section 1: General Issues 2. Connectionist models and Bayesian inference 3. Normative and descriptive models of decision making: time discounting and risk sensitivity Section 2: Memory 4. The effectiveness of retrieval from memory 5. Predictions of a Bayesian recognition memory model (and a class of mdels including it) 6. Cueing for context: an alternative to global matching models of recognition memory 7. Sorting out core memory processes 8. Rational and non-rational aspects of forgetting 9. Adaptive analysis of sequential behaviour: oscillators as rational mechanisms Section 3: Categorization & Induction 10. The rational analysis of categorization and the ACT-R architecture 11. Optimum performance and exemplar models of classificaiton 12. A Bayesian analysis of some forms of inductive reasoning 13. Dynamics of dimension weight distribution and flexibility in categorization Section 4: Reasoning 14. Causal mechanism and probability: a normative approach 15. The rational analysis of human contingency judgement 16. Rationality assumption of game theory and the backward induction paradox 17. A revised rational analysis of the selection task: exceptions and sequential sampling 18. Rational analysis of causal conditionals and the selection task 19. The practice of mathematics and science: from calculus to the clothesline problem Section 5: Search 20. The rational analysis of inquiry: the case of parsing 21. Rational analysis of exploratory choice 22. Rationality as optimised cognitive self-regulation