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Structured statistical models of inductive reasoning
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Everyday inductive inferences are often guided by rich background knowledge. Formal models of induction should aim to incorporate this knowledge and should explain how different kinds of knowledge lead to the distinctive patterns of reasoning found in different inductive contexts. This article presents a Bayesian framework that attempts to meet both goals and describes [corrected] 4 applications of the framework: a taxonomic model, a spatial model, a threshold model, and a causal model. Each model makes probabilistic inferences about the extensions of novel properties, but the priors for the 4 models are defined over different kinds of structures that capture different relationships between the categories in a domain. The framework therefore shows how statistical inference can operate over structured background knowledge, and the authors argue that this interaction between structure and statistics is critical for explaining the power and flexibility of human reasoning.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Review
- Published
- 2009
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 20-58
- ISSN
- 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1471
- OpenAlex
- W1994114516
- Cited by
- 259
- References
- 103
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- FWCI
- 29.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2009-04-06)
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Psychological Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- KiltHub Repository (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- KiltHub Repository
- Funders
- US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- William Asbjornsen Albert Memorial Fellowship
- Paul E. Newton Chair
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
- Keywords
- inductive reasoning, prior knowledge, structured priors, taxonomic model, spatial modeling, threshold model, causal models, probabilistic inference, category structure, human reasoning
- MeSH terms
- Association Learning, Bayes Theorem, Concept Formation, Decision Making, Humans, Judgment, Problem Solving, Psychological Theory, Mental Recall, Models, Statistical, Neural Networks, Computer, Knowledge
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