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NICK CHATER

Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences
Department of Psychology
University College London


Research interests

My research focusses on looking for fundamental principles of cognition, which might apply across several cognitive domains.
I am particularly interested in problems of uncertain inference, that arise in learning, reasoning, and perception; and in models of judgement and decision making, based on cognitive principles. I also work on real-world applications of the cognitive and decision sciences.

[Curriculum Vitae]

Tel: 0207 679 7585 (internal: extension 27585)

Email: n.chater@ucl.ac.uk


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Books

  1. Oaksford, M. & Chater, N. (2006/in press). Bayesian Rationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  2. Hurley, S. & Chater, N. (2005). (Eds.). Perspectives on imitation: From neuroscience to social science. Volume 1. Mechanisms of imitation and imitation in animals. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  3. Hurley, S. & Chater, N. (2005). (Eds.). Perspectives on imitation: From neuroscience to social science. Volume 2. Imitation, human development and culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  4. M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.) (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics. Westport, CT: Ablex.

  5. Oaksford, M. & Chater, N. (1998). Rationality in an uncertain world. Psychology Press: Hove, England.

  6. Oaksford, M. & Chater, N. (Eds) (1998). Rational models of cognition. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England.

Papers organised by theme
Reasoning and Decision Making back to top 5

[PDF] Stewart, N., Chater, N. & Brown, G. D. A. (2006). Decision by sampling. Cognitive Psychology. 53, 1-26.

[PDF] Vlaev, I. & Chater, N. (2006). Game Relativity: How Context Influences Strategic Decision Making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 32, 131-149.

[PDF] Chater, N., Heit, E. & Oaksford, M. (2004). Reasoning. In K. Lamberts & R. Goldstone (eds.) Handbook of Cognition (pp. 297-320). London: Sage Publications.

[PDF] Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2004). Rationality, rational analysis and human reasoning. In K. Manktelow & M. C. Chung (Ed.), Reasoning: History and philosophy. Hove, Sussex: Psychology Press.

[PDF] Moore, S. & Chater, N. (2003). The Influence of Affect on Risky Behavior: From the Lab to Real World Financial Behavior. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (6 pages).

[PDF] Vlaev, I. & Chater, N. (2003). Toward a cognitive game theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 178-179.

[PDF] Reimers, S., Stewart, N. & Chater, N. (2003). Choice set options affect the valuation of risky prospects. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (6 pages).

[PDF] Vlaev, I. & Chater, N. (2003). Effects of Sequential Context on Judgments and Decisions in Prisoner's Dilemma Game. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (6 pages).

[PDF] Chater, N., Oaksford, M., Nakisa, R. & Redington, M. (2003). Fast, frugal and rational: How rational norms explain behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 90, 63-86.

[PDF] Stewart, N., Chater, N., Stott, H. P., & Reimers, S. (2003). Prospect relativity: How choice options influence decision under risk. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 23-46.

[PDF] Oaksford, M. & Chater, N. (2003). Computational levels and conditional inference: Reply to Schroyens and Schaeken (2003). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 29, 150-156.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2003). Conditional probability and the cognitive science of conditional reasoning. Mind & Language, 18, 359-379.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2003). Modelling probabilistic effects in conditional inference: Validating search or conditional probability? Psychologica, 32, 217-242.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2003). Probabilities and pragmatics in conditional inference: Suppression and order effects. In D. Hardman, & L. Macchi (Eds.), Reasoning and Decision Making (pp. 95-122). London: Wiley.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Oaksford (2003) Rational models of cognition. In L. Nadel (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Vol 3 (pp. 826-829). London: Macmillan Press.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., Roberts, L. & Chater, N. (2002). Relative informativeness of quantifiers used in syllogistic reasoning. Memory and Cognition, 30, 138-149.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2002). Commonsense reasoning, logic and human rationality. In R. Elio (Ed.), Commonsense reasoning and rationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (2001). The probabilistic approach to human reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 5, 349-357.

[PDF] Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2001). Human rationality and the psychology of reasoning: Where do we go from here? British Journal of Psychology, 92, 193-216.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., Chater, N., & Larkin, J. (2000). Probabilities and polarity biases in conditional inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 26, 883-899.

[PDF] Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (1999). Information gain vs. decision-theoretic approaches to data selection: Response to Klauer. Psychological Review, 106, 223-227.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1999) How smart can simple heuristics be? Open peer commentary on Todd, P.M. and Gigerenzer, G. Precis of simple heuristics that make us smart. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 23, 745-746.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., Chater, N., & Grainger, R. (1999). Probabilistic effects in data selection. Thinking & Reasoning, 5, 193-243.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (1999). The probability heuristics model of syllogistic reasoning. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 191-258.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1998). A revised rational analysis of the selection task: Exceptions and sequential sampling. In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.), Rational models of cognition (pp. 372-398). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., Chater, N.., Grainger, R. & Larkin, J. (1997). Optimal data selection in the reduced array selection task (RAST). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 23, 441-458.

[PDF] Chater, N., Redington, M., Nakisa, R. & Oaksford, M. (1997). Rationality the fast and frugal way. In M. G. Shafto and P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 96-101). Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1996). Rational explanation of the selection task. Psychological Review, 103, 381-391.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1995). Two and three stage models of deontic reasoning. Thinking & Reasoning, 1, 350-357.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1995). Information gain explains relevance which explains the selection task. Cognition, 57, 97-108.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1995). Theories of reasoning and the computational explanation of everyday inference. Thinking & Reasoning, 1, 121-152.

[PDF] Oaksford, M. & Chater, N. (1994). The probabilistic retreat from biases: Implications for man-machine communication? In M. Brouwer-Janse & T. Hetherington (Eds.) Basics of man-machine communication in the design of educational systems. Berlin: Springer-Verlay.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1994). Another look at eliminative and enumerative behaviour in a conceptual task. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 6, 149-169.

[PDF] Oaksford, M. & Chater, N. (1994). A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection. Psychological Review, 101, 608-631.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1993). Reasoning theories and bounded rationality. In K. I. Manktelow, & D. E. Over (Eds.), Rationality, (pp. 31-60). London: Routledge.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1993). Mental models and non-monotonic reasoning. Behavioural & Brain Sciences, 16, 340-341.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (1993b). Holism and eclecticism in the theory of concepts. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 5, 173-182.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (1993a). Logicism, mental models and everyday reasoning. Mind & Language. 8, 72-89.

[PDF] Oaksford, M. & Chater, N. (1992). Bounded rationality in taking risks and drawing inferences. Theory & Psychology. 2, 225-230.

 
LANGUAGE back to top 5


[PDF] Chater, N., & Manning, C. (2006). Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 287-291.

[PDF] Christiansen, M., Reali, F. & Chater, N. (2006). The Baldwin effect works for functional, but not arbitrary, features of language. In Sixth International Conference on the Evolution of Language (8 pages).

[PDF] Onnis, L., Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M. H. & Chater, N. (2004). Variability is the spice of learning, and a crucial ingredient for detecting and generalizing in nonadjacent dependencies. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ.

[PDF] Chater, N. (2004). What can be learned from positive data? Insights from an 'ideal learner.' Journal of Child Language, 31, 915-918.

[PDF] Monaghan, P., Gonitzke, M. & Chater, N. (2003). Two wrongs make a right: Learnability and word-order consistency. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (6 pages).

[PDF] Christiansen, M. & Chater, N. (2003). Constituency and recursion in language. In M. A. Arbib (Ed.) The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (pp. 267-271). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[PDF] Brown, G. D. A. & Chater, N. (2003). Connectionist models of children's reading. In T. Nunes & P. E. Bryant (eds.). (pp. 67-89). Handbook of Children's Lliteracy. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

[PDF] Monaghan, P., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M. (2003). Inequality between the classes: Phonological and distributional typicality as predictors of lexical processing. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (6 pages).

[PDF] Chater, N. & Christiansen, M. (2003). Speech processing: Psycholinguistics. In M. A. Arbib (Ed.) The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (pp. 1068-1071). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[PDF] Onnis, L., Christiansen, M., Chater, N. & Gomez, R. (2003). Reduction of Uncertainty in Human Sequential Learning: Evidence from Artificial Grammar Learning. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (6 pages).

[PDF] Onnis, Roberts, & Chater (2002). Simplicity: A cure for overregularizations in language acquisition? Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp.720-725). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

[PDF] Chater, N. (2002). Is LF really a linguistic level? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25.

[PDF] Redington, M. & Chater, N. (2002). Knowledge Representation and Transfer in Artificial Grammar Learning. In R. French and A. Cleeremans (Eds.), Implicit Learning and Consciousness. Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press.

[PDF] Shillcock, R.C., Cairns, P., Chater, N. & Levy, J. (2001). Statistical and connectionist modelling of the development of speech segmentation. In P. Broeder and J. Murre (Eds.) Models of language acquisition: inductive and deductive approaches. Elsevier, Cambridge MA.

[PDF] Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics in perspective. In M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist psycholinguistics (pp. 19-75). Westport, CT: Ablex.

[PDF] Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics: The very idea. In M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist psycholinguistics (pp. 1-15). Westport, CT: Ablex.

[PDF] Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics: Capturing the empirical data. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 82-88.

[PDF] Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Finite models of infinite language: A connectionist approach to recursion. In M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist psycholinguistics (pp. 138-176). Westport, CT: Ablex.

[PDF] Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1999). Connectionist natural language processing: The state of the art. Cognitive Science, 23, 417-437.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Redington, M. (1999) Connectionism, theories of learning, and syntax acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 26, 226-232.

[PDF] Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N. & Seidenberg, M.S. (Eds.) (1999). Connectionist models of human language processing: Progress and prospects. Special issue of Cognitive Science, 23(4), 415-634.

[PDF] Redington, M. & Chater, N. (1998). Connectionist and statistical approaches to language acquisition: A distributional perspective. Language and Cognitive Processes, 13, 129-191.

[PDF] [Abstract] Pothos, E. M. & Chater, N. (1998). Generality of the Abstraction Mechanisms in Artificial Grammar Learning. Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

[PDF] Redington, M., Chater, N., & Finch, S. (1998). Distributional information: A powerful cue for acquiring syntactic categories. Cognitive Science, 22, 425-469.

[PDF] Chater, N., Crocker, M. J., & Pickering, M. J. (1998). The rational analysis of inquiry: The case of parsing. . In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.), Rational models of cognition (pp. 441-468). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[PDF] Shillcock, R.C., Cairns, P., Chater, N. & Levy, J. (1997). The development of a speech segmentation strategy for English: An example of an emergent critical period effect. In A. Sorace, C. Heycock & R. Shillcock (Eds.) Proceedings of the GALA '97 conference on "Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing", University of Edinburgh, 388-392.

[PDF] Cairns, P., Shillcock, R. C., Chater, N., & Levy, J. (1997). Bootstrapping word boundaries: A bottom-up corpus-based approach to speech segmentation. Cognitive Psychology, 33, 111-153.

[PDF] Redington, M. & Chater, N. (1997). Probabilistic and distributional approaches to language acquisition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 273-281.

[PDF] Redington, M. & Chater, N. (1996). Transfer in artificial grammar learning: A reevaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 125, 123-138.

[PDF] Redington, M. & Chater, N. (1996). Randomly changing transfer in artificial grammar learning. In G. W. Cotrell (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 829-834). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

[PDF] Redington, M., Friend, M. & Chater, N. (1996). Confidence judgements, performance, and practice, in artificial grammar learning. In G. W. Cottrell (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 649-654). Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum.

[PDF] Finch, S., Chater, N., & Redington, M. (1995). Acquiring syntactic information from distributional statistics. In J. P. Levy, D. Bairaktaris, J. A. Bullinaria & P. Cairns (Eds.), Connectionist models of memory and language (pp. 229-242). London: UCL Press.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Christiansen, M. (1995). The connectionist psycholinguistics of speech processing. In M. Arbib (Ed.) Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks.

[PDF] Abu-Bakar, M. & Chater, N. (1995). Time-warping tasks and recurrent neural nets. In J.P. Levy, D. Bairaktaris, J.A. Bullinaria, & P. Cairns (Eds.), Connectionist models of memory and language (pp. 269-289). London: UCL Press.

[PDF] Redington, M., Chater, N., Huang, C., Chang, L.-P., Finch, S., & Chen, K. (1995). The universality of simple distributional methods: Identifying syntactic categories in Chinese. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Dublin, 1995.

[PDF] Redington, M., & Chater, N. (1994). The guessing game: A paradigm for artificial grammar learning. In A. Ram and K. Eiselt (Eds.). Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 745-749). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

[PDF] Abu-Bakar, M. & Chater, N. (1994). Distribution and frequency: Modelling the effects of speaking rate on category boundaries using a recurrent neural network. In A. Ram, & K. Eiselt (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3-8). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

[PDF] Finch, S. & Chater, N. (1994). Distributional bootstrapping: From word class to proto-sentence. In A. Ram and K. Eiselt (Eds.). Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 301-306). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

[PDF] Christiansen, M. & Chater, N. (1994). Generalization and connectionist language learning. Mind and Language, 9, 273-287.

[PDF] Finch, S., & Chater, N. (1994). Learning syntactic categories: a statistical approach. In M. Oaksford & G.D.A. Brown (Eds.), Neurodynamics and psychology (pp. 294-321). London: Academic Press.

[PDF] Cairns, P., Shillock, R., Chater, & Levy, J. (1994). Lexical segmentation: the role of sequential statistics in supervised and un-supervised models. In A. Ram, & K. Eiselt (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society (pp. 136-141). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

[PDF] Cairns, P., Shillcock, R.C., Chater, N., Levy, J. (1994). Modelling the acquisition of lexical segmentation. In Proceedings of the 26th Child Language Research Forum, 1994; CSLI, Stanford CA. University of Chicago Press.

[PDF] Abu-Bakar, M. & Chater, N. (1993). Studying the effects of speaking rate and syllable structure on phonetic perception using recurrent neural networks. Irish Journal of Psychology, 14, 410-425.

[PDF] Redington, M., Chater, N. & Finch, S. (1993). Distributional information and the acquisition of linguistic categories: A statistical approach. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 848-853). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

[PDF] Abu-Bakar, M., & Chater, N. (1993). Processing time-warped sequences using recurrent neural networks: Modelling rate-dependent factors in speech perception. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 191-197). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Conkey, P. (1992). Finding linguistic structure with recurrent neural networks. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 402-407). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

[PDF] Shillcock, R.C., Lindsey, G., Levy, J. & Chater, N. (1992). A phonologically motivated input representation for the modelling of auditory word perception in continuous speech. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 408-413). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

[PDF] Finch, S., & Chater, N. (1992). Bootstrapping syntactic categories using statistical methods. Proceedings of the 1st SHOE Workshop on Statistical Methods in Natural Language (pp. 229-235). ITK Proceedings 92/1, Institute for Language Technology and AI, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

[PDF] Levy, J., Shillcock, R.C. & Chater, N. (1991). Connectionist modelling of phonotactic constraints in word recognition. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (pp. 101-106). Singapore, 1991.

[PDF] Shillcock, R.C., Levy, J., & Chater, N. (1991). A connectionist model of auditory word recognition in continuous speech. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp.340-345). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

[PDF] Finch, S. & Chater, N. (1991). A hybrid approach to the automatic learning of linguistic categories. Artificial Intelligence Society of Britain Quarterly, 78, 16-24.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Christiansen, M. (in press). Connectionist and natural language processing. In S. Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.) Language Processing (pp. 233-279) Hove, England: Psychology Press.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Vitanyi, P. (in press). 'Ideal learning' of natural language: Positive results about learning from positive evidence. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.

 

CATEGORIZATION, PERCEPTION AND MEMORY

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Pothos, E., Chater, N. & Ziori, E. (2006). Does stimulus appearance affect learning? American Journal of Psychology. 119, 277-301.

[PDF] Stewart, N., Brown, G. D. A. & Chater, N. (2005). Absolute identification by relative judgment. Psychological Review, 112, 881-911.

[PDF] Olivers, C. N. L., Chater, N. & Watson, D. G. (2004). Holography does not account for goodness: A critique of van der Helm and Leeuwenberg (1996). Psychological Review, 111, 242-260.

[PDF] Pothos, E., Chater, N. & Stewart, A. J. (2004). Information about the logical structure of a category affects generalization. British Journal of Psychology, 95, 371-386.

[PDF] Stewart, N. & Chater, N. (2003). No Unified Scales for Perceptual Magnitudes: Evidence from Loudness. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (6 pages).

[PDF] Chater, N. & Vitányi, P. (2003). The generalized universal law of generalization. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 47, 346-369.

[PDF] Hahn, U., Chater, N. & Richardson, L. B. C. (2003). Similarity as transformation. Cognition, 87, 1-32.

[PDF] Stewart, N., & Chater, N. (2002). The effect of category variability in perceptual categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 893-907.

[PDF] Pothos, E. & Chater, N. (2002). A simplicity principle in unsupervised human categorization. Cognitive Science, 26, 303-343.

[PDF] Stewart, N., Brown, G. D. A., & Chater, N. (2002). Sequence effects in categorization of simple perceptual stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 3 11.

[PDF] French, R. M. & Chater, N. (2002). Using noise to compute error surfaces in connectionist networks: A novel method to reduce catastrophic forgetting. Neural Computation, 14, 1755-1769.

[PDF] Maylor, E. A., Chater, N., & Brown, G. D. A.(2001). Scale invariance in the retrieval of retrospective and prospective memories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 162-167.

[PDF] Maylor, E. A., Chater, N., & Jones, G. V. (2001). Searching for two things at once: Evidence of exclusivity in semantic and autobiographical memory retrieval. Memory & Cognition, 29, 1185-1195.

[PDF] Hahn, U., Richardson, L.B. & Chater, N., (2001). Similarity: A transformational approach. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 393-398.

[PDF] Pothos, E. & Chater, N. (2001) Category learning without labels-A simplicity approach. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 774-779.

[PDF] Pothos, E.M. & Chater, N. (2001) Categorization by simplicity: A minimum description length approach to unsupervised clustering. In Hahn, U. & Ramscar, M. (Eds). Similarity and categorization. (pp. 51-72). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[PDF] Chater, N. (2000) The logic of human learning. Nature, 407, 572-573.

[PDF] Hahn, U. & Chater, N. (1998). Similarity and Rules: Distinct? Exhaustive? Empirically distinguishable? Cognition, 65, 197-230.

[PDF] Hahn, U., & Chater, N. (1998). The notion of distal similarity is ill-defined. Open peer commentary on Edelman, S. Representation is representation of similarities. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 21, 474.

[PDF] Hahn, U. & Chater, N. (1998). Understanding similarity: A joint project for psychology, case-based reasoning, and law. Artificial Intelligence Review, 12, 393-427.

[PDF] Hahn, U. & Chater, N. (1997). Concepts and similarity. In K. Lamberts & D. Shanks (Eds.). Knowledge, concepts and categories, (pp. 43-92). Hove, England: Psychology Press.

[PDF] Chater, N. and Hahn, U. (1997) Representational Distortion, Similarity and the Universal Law of Generalization. In Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Workshop on Similarity and Categorization. University of Edinburgh.

[PDF] Hahn, U., Chater, N. and Henley, R. (1996). Weighting in Similarity Judgements: an investigation of the "MAX Hypothesis". In G. W. Cotrell (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1996). Reconciling simplicity and likelihood principles in perceptual organization. Psychological Review, 103, 566-581.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1993). Categorization, theories and folk psychology. Behavioural & Brain Sciences, 16, 37.

[PDF] Lyon, K. & Chater, N. (1990). Localist and globalist theories of concepts. In K. Gilhooly, R. Logie, M. Keane & G. Erdos (Eds.) Lines of thinking, Vol 1 (pp. 41-56). Chichester: Wiley.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Lyon, K. & Myers, T. (1990) Why are conjunctive categories overextended? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 16, 497-508.

 
FOUNDATIONS, THEORY AND METHODOLOGY back to top 5


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Chater, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Yuille, A. (2006). Probabilistic models of cognition: Conceptual foundations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 292-293.

[PDF] Chater, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Yuille, A. (2006). Probabilistic models of cognition: Where next? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 335-344.

[PDF] Chater, N. (2005). A minimum description length principle for perception. In M. Pitt & I. Myung (Eds.) Advances in minimum description length: Theory and applications. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Pickering, M. (2004). Why science and belief-desire explanation do not overlap. Facta Philosophica, 5, 335-353.

[PDF] Chater, N. (2003). How much can we learn from double dissociations? Cortex, 39, 167-169.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (2002). The rational analysis of human cognition. In J. L. Bermúdez & A. Millar (Eds.), Reason and Nature: Essays in the theory of rationality (pp. 135-174). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Vitányi, P. (2002). Simplicity: A unifying principle in cognitive science? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 19-22.

[PDF] Chater, N. (2000). Contrary views: A review of "On the contrary" by Paul and Patricia Churchland. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 31, 615-627.

[PDF] Chater, N., & Oaksford, M. (2000). The rational analysis of mind and behaviour. Synthese, 122, 93-131.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1999). The search for simplicity: A fundamental cognitive principle? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 273-302.

[PDF] Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1999). Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance. Cognitive Science, 23, 157-205.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1999) Why biological neuroscience cannot replace psychology. Open peer commentary on Gold, I. and Stoljar, D. A neuron doctrine in the philosophy of neuroscience. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 22, 834.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (1999). Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 57-65.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Brown, G. D. A. (1999). Scale invariance as a unifying psychological principle. Cognition, 69, B17-B24.

[PDF] Hahn, U., and Chater, N. (1998) On following rules: When is behavior rule-guided. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1998). An introduction to rational models of cognition. In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.), Rational models of cognition (pp. 1-18). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[PDF] Hahn, U., & Chater, N. (1998). What is the dynamical hypothesis? Open peer commentary on van Gelder, T. The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 21, 633.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1997) What is the type-1/type-2 distinction? Open peer commentary on Clark, A. & Thornton, C. Trading spaces; computation, representation and the limits of uninformed learning. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 20, 68-69.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Pickering, M. (1997). Two projects for understanding the mind: A response to Morris and Richardson. Minds and Machines, 7, 553-569.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1997). Simplicity and the mind. The Psychologist, November, 1997, 495-498.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (1996). Deontic reasoning, modules and innateness: A second look. Mind and Language, 11, 191-202.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (1996). The falsity of folk theories: Implications for psychology and philosophy. In W. O'Donahue & R. F. Kitchener (Eds.) The philosophy of psychology. London: Sage.

[PDF] Pickering, M. & Chater, N. (1995). Why cognitive science is not formalized folk psychology. Minds and Machines, 5, 309-337.

[PDF] Bullinaria, J. A., & Chater, N. (1995). Connectionist modelling: Implications for neuropsychology. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10, 227-64.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1995). Neural networks: The new statistical models of mind. In J.P. Levy, D. Bairaktaris, J.A. Bullinaria, & P. Cairns (Eds.), Connectionist models of memory and language (pp. 207-227). London: UCL Press.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1994). Modularity, interaction and connectionist neuropsychology. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 17, 66-67.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Heyes, C. (1994). Animal concepts: Content and discontent. Mind and Language, 9, 209-246.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1994). Information theory. Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, Volume 3 (pp. 1685-1687). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Conkey, P. (1994). Sequence processing with recurrent neural networks. In G. D. A. Brown & M. Oaksford (Eds.), Neurodynamics and psychology (pp. 269-294). London: Academic Press.

[PDF] Bullinaria, J. A. & Chater, N. (1993). Double dissociation in artificial neural networks: Implications for neuropsychology. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 283-288). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

[PDF] Christiansen, M., & Chater, N. (1993). Symbol grounding - the emperor's new theory of meaning? In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 155-160). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

[PDF] Christiansen, M., & Chater, N. (1992). Connectionism, learning and meaning. Connection Science, 4, 227-252.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (1991). Against logicist cognitive science. Mind & Language. 6, 1-38.

[PDF] Chater, N. & Ganis, G. (1991). Double dissociation and isolable cognitive processes. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp.668-672). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

[PDF] Chater, N. (1991). Network and direct methods of maximizing harmony. Behavioural & Brain Sciences, 14, 740-742.

[PDF] Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.R., (1990), Autonomy, Implementation and Cognitive Architecture: A Reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn, Cognition 34, 93-107.

[PDF] Oaksford, M., Chater, N., & Stenning, K. (1990). Connectionism, classical cognitive science and experimental psychology. AI & Society, 4, 73-90 (Also in A. Clark, & R. Lutz (Eds.) (1992). Connectionism in context (pp. 57-74). Berlin: Springer-Verlag).

 
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