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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Mike Oaksford is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields, including artificial intelligence, history and philosophy of science, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work is distributed across several main topics, notably philosophy and history of science, cognitive science and mapping, child and animal learning development, embodied and extended cognition, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, language and cultural evolution, and face recognition and perception.

Recent published papers by Mike Oaksford include the following:

  • Mental models, computational explanation and Bayesian cognitive science: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023), 2021, Thinking & Reasoning
  • Social Rationality and Human Reasoning: Logical Expressivism and the Flat Mind, 2024, Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Could Bayesian cognitive science undermine dual-process theories of reasoning?, 2023, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Co-authors who have frequently collaborated with Oaksford are:

  • Nick Chater
  • James R. H. Vance
  • Morten H. Christiansen
  • Simon Moore

The scientist has published in several venues often associated with cognitive science and psychology research, including:

  • Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Thinking & Reasoning
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology

Mike Oaksford was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society in 1995.

Best Publications

  • A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection.

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • Mood, reasoning, and central executive processes.

    Mike Oaksford;Frances Morris;Becki Grainger;J. Mark G. Williams

  • Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition

    Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford

  • The Probability Heuristics Model of Syllogistic Reasoning.

    Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford

  • Rational Models of Cognition

    Fernand Gobet;M. Oaksford;N. Chater

  • The Rationality of Informal Argumentation: A Bayesian Approach to Reasoning Fallacies

    Ulrike Hahn;Michael Robert Oaksford

  • Précis of Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • The probabilistic approach to human reasoning

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • Rationality In An Uncertain World: Essays In The Cognitive Science Of Human Understanding

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • Against Logicist Cognitive Science

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • Probabilities and polarity biases in conditional inference.

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater;Joanne Larkin

  • The probabilistic mind: prospects for Bayesian cognitive science

    Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford

  • RATIONAL EXPLANATION OF THE SELECTION TASK

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • Fast, frugal, and rational: How rational norms explain behavior

    Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford;Ramin Nakisa;Martin Redington

  • Reasoning with conditionals containing negated constituents.

    Mike Oaksford;Keith Stenning

  • Autonomy, implementation and cognitive architecture: a reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn.

    Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford

  • Theories of reasoning and the computational explanation of everyday inference

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • New Paradigms in the Psychology of Reasoning.

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • Emotional cognition: from brain to behaviour

    Simon Christopher Moore;Michael Oaksford

  • Rational models of cognition

    Michael Oaksford;N. Chater

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Ulrike Hahn
Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Klaus Oberauer
Klaus Oberauer University of Zurich
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Peter Juslin
Peter Juslin Uppsala University
Evan Heit
Evan Heit National Science Foundation
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger Brown University
Ruth M. J. Byrne
Ruth M. J. Byrne Trinity College Dublin

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