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Mental Sampling in Multimodal Representations
Jian-Qiao Zhu, Adam N. Sanborn, Nick Chater
Both resources in the natural environment and concepts in a semantic space are distributed "patchily", with large gaps in between the patches. To describe people's internal and ext…
Identification of Probabilities
Paul M. B. Vitanyi, Nick Chater
Within psychology, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, there has been increasing interest in the proposal that the brain builds probabilistic models of sensory and linguistic…
Algorithmic Identification of Probabilities
Paul M. B. Vitanyi, Nick Chater
TThe problem is to identify a probability associated with a set of natural numbers, given an infinite data sequence of elements from the set. If the given sequence is drawn i.i.d.…
Evolution in a Changing Environment
Andrea Baronchelli, Nick Chater, Morten H. Christiansen +1
We propose a simple model for genetic adaptation to a changing environment, describing a fitness landscape characterized by two maxima. One is associated with "specialist" individu…
Networks in Cognitive Science
Andrea Baronchelli, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras +2
Networks of interconnected nodes have long played a key role in Cognitive Science, from artificial neural net- works to spreading activation models of semantic mem- ory. Recently,…
The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity
Andrea Baronchelli, Nick Chater, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras +1
In contrast with animal communication systems, diversity is characteristic of almost every aspect of human language. Languages variously employ tones, clicks, or manual signs to si…