Nick Chater

According to our database, Nick Chater authored at least 56 papers between 1990 and 2024.

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2024

Explaining the flaws in human random generation as local sampling with momentum.

Lucas Castillo, Pablo León-Villagrá, Nick Chater, Adam Sanborn

PLoS Comput. Biol., January, 2024

2022

Understanding the structure of cognitive noise.

Jian-Qiao Zhu, Pablo León-Villagrá, Nick Chater, Adam N. Sanborn

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2022

Sampling as the Human Approximation to Probabilistic Inference.

Adam Sanborn, Jian-Qiao Zhu, Jake Spicer, Joakim Sundh, Pablo León-Villagrá, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the Human-Like Machine Intelligence., 2022

Spontaneous Communicative Conventions through Virtual Bargaining.

Nick Chater, Jennifer Misyak

Proceedings of the Human-Like Machine Intelligence., 2022

2020

How many instances come to mind when making probability estimates?

Joakim Sundh, Jian-Qiao Zhu, Nicholas Chater, Adam Sanborn

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

Bayesian Inference Causes Incoherence in Human Probability Judgments.

Jian-Qiao Zhu, Adam Sanborn, Nicholas Chater

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Why Decisions Bias Perception: An Amortised Sequential Sampling Account.

Jian-Qiao Zhu, Adam Sanborn, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Collusion in Bertrand vs. Cournot Competition: A Virtual Bargaining Approach.

Tigran Melkonyan, Hossam Zeitoun, Nick Chater

Manag. Sci., 2018

Adaptive Anchoring Model: How Static and Dynamic Presentations of Time Series Influence Judgments and Predictions.

Petko Kusev, Paul van Schaik, Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova, Asgeir Juliusson, Nick Chater

Cogn. Sci., 2018

Mental Sampling in Multimodal Representations.

Jian-Qiao Zhu, Adam Sanborn, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, 2018

The Cognitive Mechanisms of Contractualist Moral Decision-Making.

Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Nicholas Chater, Fiery Cushman, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

Identification of Probabilities.

Paul M. B. Vitányi, Nick Chater

CoRR, 2017

The spontaneous creation of systems of conventions.

Jennifer Misyak, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

Searching Choices: Quantifying Decision-Making Processes Using Search Engine Data.

Helen Susannah Moat, Christopher Y. Olivola, Nick Chater, Tobias Preis

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2016

Judging the Probability of Hypotheses Versus the Impact of Evidence: Which Form of Inductive Inference Is More Accurate and Time-Consistent?

Katya Tentori, Nick Chater, Vincenzo Crupi

Cogn. Sci., 2016

Shifting meanings: The fluidity of signal-meaning mappings in a minimal communicative task.

Jennifer Misyak, Takao Noguchi, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015

Invertible signals: A challenge for theories of communication.

Jennifer Misyak, Takao Noguchi, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014

Cognitive Science as an Interface Between Rational and Mechanistic Explanation.

Nick Chater

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2014

2013

Language Learning From Positive Evidence, Reconsidered: A Simplicity-Based Approach.

Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater, Paul M. B. Vitányi

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2013

Editors' Introduction: Why Formal Learning Theory Matters for Cognitive Science.

Sean A. Fulop, Nick Chater

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2013

Networks in Cognitive Science

Andrea Baronchelli, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Nick Chater, Morten H. Christiansen

CoRR, 2013

The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity

Andrea Baronchelli, Nick Chater, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Morten H. Christiansen

CoRR, 2013

Algorithmic Identification of Probabilities.

Paul M. B. Vitányi, Nick Chater

CoRR, 2013

Programs as Causal Models: Speculations on Mental Programs and Mental Representation.

Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford

Cogn. Sci., 2013

New Frameworks of Rationality.

Nick Chater, Klaus Fiedler, Gerd Gigerenzer, Karl Christoph Klauer, Mike Oaksford, Keith Stenning

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

What if? Counterfactual reasoning, pretense, and the role of possible worlds.

Daphna Buchsbaum, Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik, Nick Chater, David Danks, Christopher G. Lucas, Charles Kemp, Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Communicative Intentions in the Mind/Brain.

Bruno G. Bara, Nick Chater, Michael Tomasello, Rosemary Varley

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2012

fMRI of attention and automaticity in judgments from facial appearance.

Ramsey Raafat, Nikos Konstantinou, Chris D. Frith, Nilli Lavie, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

What Can Cognitive Science Say or Learn about Economic Crises?

Magda Osman, Björn Meder, Gerd Gigerenzer, Nick Chater, Daniel Read, Hansjörg Neth

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Computational, Cognitive, and Neural Models of Decision-making Biases.

Jonathan Malmaud, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Peter Dayan, Laurence T. Maloney, Edward Vul, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

2011

Inductive Logic and Empirical Psychology.

Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford, Ulrike Hahn, Evan Heit

Proceedings of the Inductive Logic, 2011

Identifying Optimum Performance Trade-Offs Using a Cognitively Bounded Rational Analysis Model of Discretionary Task Interleaving.

Christian P. Janssen, Duncan P. Brumby, John Dowell, Nick Chater, Andrew Howes

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2011

Simplifying Reading: Applying the Simplicity Principle to Reading.

Janet I. Vousden, Michelle R. Ellefson, Jonathan Solity, Nick Chater

Cogn. Sci., 2011

On Counterfactuals and Cognitive Science: Rumlhart Prize Symposium in Honor of Judea Pearl.

Steven A. Sloman, Judea Pearl, Nick Chater, Lance J. Rips, Jim Joyce, Stefan Kaufmann

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Investigating Convention Shifts and Team Reasoning in Multi-Agent Simulations.

Anna Coenen, Ramsey Raafat, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

2010

The probabilistic analysis of language acquisition: Theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis

Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater, Paul M. B. Vitányi

CoRR, 2010

The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective.

Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater

Cogn. Sci., 2010

Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution.

Nick Chater, Morten H. Christiansen

Cogn. Sci., 2010

The Rumelhart Prize at 10.

William Bechtel, Marlene Behrmann, Nick Chater, Robert J. Glushko, Robert L. Goldstone, Paul Smolensky

Cogn. Sci., 2010

2009

Hierarchical Learning of Dimensional Biases in Human Categorization.

Katherine A. Heller, Adam Sanborn, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009. Proceedings of a meeting held 7-10 December 2009, 2009

2008

From Universal Laws of Cognition to Specific Cognitive Models.

Nick Chater, Gordon D. A. Brown

Cogn. Sci., 2008

2007

A Non-Parametric Approach to Simplicity Clustering.

Peter Hines, Emmanuel M. Pothos, Nick Chater

Appl. Artif. Intell., 2007

2002

Using Noise to Compute Error Surfaces in Connectionist Networks: A Novel Means of Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting.

Robert M. French, Nick Chater

Neural Comput., 2002

A simplicity principle in unsupervised human categorization.

Emmanuel M. Pothos, Nick Chater

Cogn. Sci., 2002

2001

The Generalized Universal Law of Generalization

Nick Chater, Paul M. B. Vitányi

CoRR, 2001

Categorization by simplicity: a minimum description length approach to unsupervised clustering.

Emmanuel M. Pothos, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the Similarity and Categorization., 2001

2000

The Rational Analysis Of Mind And Behavior.

Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford

Synth., 2000

1999

Preface.

Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater, Mark S. Seidenberg

Cogn. Sci., 1999

Connectionist natural language processing: the state of the art.

Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater

Cogn. Sci., 1999

Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance.

Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater

Cogn. Sci., 1999

1998

Distributional Information: A Powerful Cue for Acquiring Syntactic Categories.

Martin Redington, Nick Chater, Steven Finch

Cogn. Sci., 1998

Understanding Similarity: A Joint Project for Psychology, Case-Based Reasoning, and Law.

Ulrike Hahn, Nick Chater

Artif. Intell. Rev., 1998

1997

Two Projects for Understanding the Mind: A Response to Morris and Richardson.

Nick Chater, Martin J. Pickering

Minds Mach., 1997

1995

Why cognitive science is not formalized folk psychology.

Martin J. Pickering, Nick Chater

Minds Mach., 1995

1994

Phonetic prototypes: modelling the effects of speaking rate on the internal structure of a voiceless category using recurrent neural networks.

Mukhlis Abu-Bakar, Nick Chater

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

1990

Connectionism, Classical Cognitive Science and Experimental Psychology.

Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater, Keith Stenning

AI Soc., 1990