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Integrating Bayesian analysis and mechanistic theories in grounded cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2011

Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou
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Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. barsalou@emory.eduhttp://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/index.html
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Abstract

Grounded cognition offers a natural approach for integrating Bayesian accounts of optimality with mechanistic accounts of cognition, the brain, the body, the physical environment, and the social environment. The constructs of simulator and situated conceptualization illustrate how Bayesian priors and likelihoods arise naturally in grounded mechanisms to predict and control situated action.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , August 2011 , pp. 191 - 192
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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