Nick Chater
Chater joined Warwick Business School in 2010 after holding psychology chairs at Warwick and UCL. His research studies the cognitive and social foundations of rationality. Chater coauthored a review with Mike Oaksford, Ulrike Hahn and Evan Heit of Bayesian models for perception, categorization, learning, causality and language. It explains how probabilistic inference models cognitive tasks under uncertainty. Chater received the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2023. His work includes reasoning, decision-making, language and mathematical models of cognition.
- Now at
- University of Warwick
- Works
- 645
- Citations
- 29,303
- h-index
- 86
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Timeline
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2010
Behavioral-science research
Chater joined Warwick Business School in 2010 after holding psychology chairs at Warwick and UCL. His research studies the cognitive and social foundations of rationality.
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2010
Bayesian models of cognition
Chater coauthored a review with Mike Oaksford, Ulrike Hahn and Evan Heit of Bayesian models for perception, categorization, learning, causality and language. It explains how probabilistic inference models cognitive tasks under uncertainty.
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2023
Cognitive-science recognition
Chater received the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2023. His work includes reasoning, decision-making, language and mathematical models of cognition.
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