id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_vkale6l5ebbxhlx32dniy3qshe Matteo Colombo Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation 2015 41 .pdf application/pdf 13092 1013 55 Keywords Bayesian modelling; Unification; Causal-mechanical explanation; Cue integration; sections, most Bayesian models are not hypotheses about the mechanisms that produce particular integration is one of the most studied phenomena within Bayesian cognitive science. that brains perform Bayesian inference and encode probability distributions (Knill and Pouget behavioural results were predicted by a Bayesian linear model of the type described above, where The kind of unification afforded by Bayesian models to cognitive phenomena does not reveal per se Bayesian model to certain phenomena is constrained by general mathematical results, rather than by cognitive science, and about whether the type of unification afforded by Bayesian modelling to Bayesian models that unify phenomena displayed in many psychophysical tasks (Rao [2004]; Ma et The unification afforded by Bayesian modelling in cognitive science has heuristic value in postulated by the abstract Bayesian model unifying behavioural-level phenomena (Ma and Pouget obviously linked to causal-mechanical explanation: unification in Bayesian cognitive science is ./cache/work_vkale6l5ebbxhlx32dniy3qshe.pdf ./txt/work_vkale6l5ebbxhlx32dniy3qshe.txt