Integrating Bayesian analysis and mechanistic theories in grounded cognition

Abstract

AbstractGrounded 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 ofsimulatorandsituated conceptualizationillustrate how Bayesian priors and likelihoods arise naturally in grounded mechanisms to predict and control situated action.