Professor Nick Chater

Journal Articles

• Baronchelli, A., Chater, N., Christiansen, M. H. and Pastor-Satorras, R.. "Evolution in a changing environment"
  PLoS One 8 (2013): e52742.
• Rezlescu, C., et al.. "Unfakeable facial configurations affect strategic choices in trust games with or without information about past behavior."
  PLoS One 7 (2012)
• Hsu, A. S., Chater, N. and Vitányi, P. M. B.. "The probabilistic analysis of language acquisition : theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis"
  Cognition 120 (2011): 380-390.
• Chater, N., et al.. "The imaginary fundamentalists : the unshocking truth about Bayesian cognitive science"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 34 (2011): 194-196.
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M.R.. "Autonomy, implementation and cognitive architecture: a reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn"
  Cognition 34 (2010): 93-107.
• Kurniawan, I.T., et al.. "Choosing to Make an Effort: The Role of Striatum in Signaling Physical Effort of a Chosen Action"
  Journal Of Neurophysiology 104 (2010): 313-321.
• Vlaev, I., Kusev, P., Chater, N., Stewart, N., & Aldrovandi, S.. "(in press). Domain effects and financial risk attitudes"
  Risk Analysis (2010)
• Hsu, A., & Chater, N.. "(in press). The logical problem of language acquisition: A probabilistic perspective"
  Cognitive Science (2010)
• Christiansen, M.H., & Chater, N.. "Language acquisition meets language evolution"
  Cognitive Science 34 (2010): 1131-1157.
• Bechtel, W., et al.. "The Rumelhart Prize at 10"
  Cognitive Science 34 (2010): 713-715.
• Otto, P.E., Chater, N., and Stott, H.. "The psychological representation of corporate ‘personality’"
  Applied Cognitive Psychology 25 (2010): 605-614.
• Kurniawan, I.T., et al.. "Pain Relativity in Motor Control"
  Psychological Science 21 (2010): 840-847.
• Chater, N., Oaksford, M.. "(in press). Local and global inferential relations: Response to Over."
  Thinking And Reasoning (2010)
• Griffiths, T.L., Chater, N., Kemp, C., Perfors, A., Tenenbaum, J.B.. "(in press). Probabilistic models of cognition: Exploring the laws of thought."
  Trends In Cognitive Science (2010)
• Griffiths, T.L., et al.. "Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 14 (2010): 357-364.
• Oaksford, M. and Chater, N.. "Causation and conditionals in the cognitive science of human reasoning"
  The Open Psychology Journal (Online) 3 (2010): 105-118.
• Chater, N. and Christiansen, M.H.. "Language evolution as cultural evolution: how language is shaped by the brain"
  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science 1 (2010): 623-628.
• Chater, N., et al.. "Bayesian models of cognition"
  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science 1 (2010): 811-823.
• Hodgetts, C., Hahn, U., and Chater, N.. "Transformation and alignment in similarity"
  Cognition 113 (2009): 62-79.
• Chater, N.. "Rational and mechanistic perspectives on reinforcement learning"
  Cognition 113 (2009): 350-364.
• Chater, N., Reali, F. and Christiansen, M.H.. "Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution"
  Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences (USA) 106 (2009): 1015-1020.
• Oaksford, M. and Chater, N.. "Précis of Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 32 (2009): 69-84.
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N., Lewis, R., & Davies, G.. "Reason-based judgments: Using reasons to decouple perceived price-quality correlation"
  Journal of Economic Psychology 30 (2009): 721-731.
• Reimers, S., Maylor, E., Stewart, N., & Chater, N.. "Associations between a one-shot delay discounting measure and age, income, education and real-world impulsive behaviour"
  Personality And Individual Differences 47 (2009): 973-978.
• Ungemach, C., Chater, N., & Stewart, N.. "Are probabilities overweighted or underweighted, when rare outcomes are experienced (rarely)?"
  Psychological Science 20 (2009): 473-479.
• Vlaev, I., et al.. "The Price of Pain and the Value of Suffering"
  Psychological Science 20 (2009): 309-317.
• Otto, P.E., et al.. "From spending to understanding: Analyzing customers by their spending behavior"
  Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 16 (2009): 10-18.
• Raafat, R.M., Chater, N. and Frith, C.. "Herding in humans"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 13 (2009): 420-428.
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N., & Stewart, N.. "Dimensionality of risk perception: Factors affecting consumer understanding and evaluation of financial risk"
  The Journal of Behavioral Finance 9 (2009): 132-148.
• Christiansen, M., Chater, N. and Reali, F.. "The biological and cultural foundations of language"
  Communicative & Integrative Biology 2 (2009): 221-222.
• Brown, G.D.A., Chater, N., & Neath, I.. "Serial and free recall: Common effects and common mechanisms? A reply to Murdock."
  Psychological Review 115 (2008): 781-785.
• Chater, N., Vlaev, I., and Grinberg, M.. "A new consequence of Simpson's paradox: Stable cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemma from populations of individualistic learners."
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: General 137 (2008): 403-421.
• Christiansen, M.H. and Chater, N.. "Language as shaped by the brain"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 31 (2008): 489-509.
• Chater, N., Brown, G.D.A.. "From universal laws of cognition to specific cognitive models"
  Cognitive Science 32 (2008): 36-47.
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N., & Stewart, N.. "Seeing is not enough: Manipulating choice options causes focusing and preference change in multiattribute risky decision making"
  Journal of Behavioural Decision Making 3 (2008)
• Vlaev, I., Stewart, N. & Chater, N.. "Risk preference discrepancy: A prospect relativity account of the discrepancy between risk preferences in laboratory gambles and real world investments"
  The Journal of Behavioral Finance 9 (2008): 132-148.
• Roberts, M., and Chater, N.. "Using statistical smoothing to estimate the psycholinguistic acceptability of novel phrases"
  Behavior Research Methods 40 (2008): 84-93.
• Vlaev, I. and Chater, N.. "Debiasing context effects in strategic decisions: Playing against a consistent opponent can correct perceptual but not reinforcement biase"
  Judgment and Decision Making 3 (2008): 463-474.
• Chater, N., Vitanyi, P.. "Ideal learning of natural language: Positive results about learning from positive evidence"
  51 (2007): 135-163.
• Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M., & Chater, N.. "The Phonological-distributional coherence hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition"
  Cognitive Psychology 55 (2007): 259-305.
• Brown, G.D.A., Neath, I., & Chater, N.. "A temporal ratio model of memory"
  Psychological Review 114 (2007): 539-576.
• Hines, P., Pothos, E.M., & Chater, N.. "A non-parametric approach to simplicity clustering"
  Applied Artificial Intelligence 21 (2007): 729-752.
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N., & Stewart, N.. "Financial prospect relativity: context effects in financial decision-making under risk"
  Journal of Behavioural Decision Making 20 (2007): 273-304.
• Otto, P.E., Davies, G.B., & Chater, N.. "Note on ways of saving: Mental mechanisms as tools of self-control"
  Global Business and Economics Review 9 (2007): 227-254.
• Vlaev, I, Chater, N., & Stewart, N.. "Relativistic financial decisions: Context effects on retirement savings and investment risk preferences"
  Judgment and Decision Making 2 (2007): 292-311.
• Vlaev, I. and Chater, N.. "Context effects in games: Local versus global sequential effects on choice in the prisoner's dilemma game"
  Judgment and Decision Making 2 (2007): 380-389.
• Pothos, E., Chater, N., & Ziori, E.. "Does stimulus appearance affect learning?"
  American Journal Of Psychology 119 (2006): 277-301.
• Stewart, N., Chater, N., & Brown, G.D.A.. "Decision by sampling"
  Cognitive Psychology 53 (2006): 1-26.
• Vlaev, I., & Chater, N.. "Game relativity: How Context Influences Strategic Decision Making"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: LMC 32 (2006): 131-149.
• Ellefson, M.R., Shapiro, L.R., & Chater, N.. "Asymmetrical switch costs in children"
  Cognitive Development 21 (2006): 108-130.
• Chater, N., Tenenbaum, J., & Yuille, A. (Eds.). "Probabilistic models of cognition. Special Issue."
  Trends In Cognitive Science 10 (2006)
• Chater, N., Tenenbaum, J.B., Yuille, A.. "Probabilistic models of cognition: Conceptual foundations"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 10 (2006): 287-291.
• Chater, N., Tenenbaum, J.B., Yuille, A.. "Probabilistic models of cognition: Where next?"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 10 (2006): 292-293.
• Chater, N., Manning, C.. "Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 10 (2006): 335-344.
• Neath, I., Brown, G.D.A., McCormack, T., Chater, N., & Freeman, R.. "Distinctiveness models of memory and absolute identification: Evidence for local, not global, effects"
  Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology 59 (2006): 121-135.
• Monaghan, P., Chater, N., & Christiansen, M.H.. "The differential contribution of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation"
  Cognition 96 (2005): 143-182.
• Stewart, N., Brown, G.D.A., & Chater, N.. "Absolute identification by relative judgment"
  Psychological Review 112 (2005): 881-911.
• Onnis, L., Monaghan, P., Chater, N., & Richmond, K.. "Phonology impacts segmentation and generalization in speech processing"
  Journal Of Memory And Language 53 (2005): 225-237.
• Pothos, E.M., & Chater, N.. "Unsupervised categorization and category learning"
  Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology 58A (2005): 733-752.
• Pothos, E., Chater, N., & Stewart, A.J.. "Information about the logical structure of a category affects generalization"
  British Journal Of Psychology 95 (2004): 371-386.
• Olivers, C.N.L., Chater, N., & Watson, D.G.. "Holography does not account for goodness: A critique of van der Helm and Leeuwenberg (1996)"
  Psychological Review (2004): 242-260.
• Chater, N.. "What can be learned from positive data? Insights from an ideal learner"
  Journal Of Child Language 31 (2004): 915-918.
• Chater, N., Pickering, M.. "Why science and belief-desire explanation do not overlap"
  Facta Philosophica 5 (2004): 335-353.
• Hahn, U., Chater, N., & Richardson, L.B.C.. "Similarity as transformation"
  Cognition 87 (2003): 1-32.
• Chater, N.. "How much can we learn from double dissociations"
  Cortex 39 (2003): 167-169.
• Chater, N., Vitanyi, P.. "The generalized universal law of generalization"
  Journal Of Mathematical Psychology 47 (2003): 346-369.
• Stewart, N., Chater, N., Stott, H.P., & Reimers, S.. "Prospect Relativity: How choice options influence decision under risk"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: General 132 (2003): 23-46.
• Vlaev, I., & Chater, N.. "Toward a cognitive game theory"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 26 (2003): 178-179.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Conditional probability and the cognitive science of conditional reasoning"
  Mind And Language 18 (2003): 359-379.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Computational levels and conditional inference: Reply to Schroyens and Schaeken"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: LMC 29 (2003): 150-156.
• Chater, N., Oaksford, M., Nakisa, R., & Redington, M.. "Fast, frugal and rational: How rational norms explain behavior"
  Organizational Behavior And Human Decision Processes 90 (2003): 63-86.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Modelling probabilistic effects in conditional inference: Validating search or conditional probability"
  Psychologica 32 (2003): 217-242.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Optimal data selection: Revision, review and re-evaluation"
  Psychonomic Bulletin And Review 10 (2003): 289-318.
• Oaksford, M., Roberts, L., & Chater, N.. "Relative informativeness of quantifiers used in syllogistic reasoning"
  Memory & Cognition 30 (2002): 138-149.
• Chater, N.. "Is LF really a linguistic level?"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 25 (2002)
• Stewart, N., Brown, G.D.A., & Chater, N.. "Sequence effects in categorization of simple perceptual stimuli"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: LMC 28 (2002): 3-11.
• Stewart, N., & Chater, N.. "The effect of category variability in perceptual categorization"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: LMC 28 (2002): 893-907.
• Pothos, E., & Chater, N.. "A simplicity principle in unsupervised human categorization"
  Cognitive Science (2002): 303-343.
• French, R.M., & Chater, N.. "Using noise to computer error surfaces in connectionist networks: A novel method to reduce catastrophic forgetting"
  Neural Computation 14 (2002): 1755-1769.
• Chater, N., & Vitanyi, P.. "Simplicity: A unifying principle in cognitive science?"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 7 (2002): 19-22.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Human rationality and the psychology of reasoning: Where do we go from here?"
  British Journal Of Psychology 92 (2001): 193-216.
• Maylor, E.A., Chater, N., & Jones, G.V.. "Searching for two things at once: Evidence of exclusivity in semantic and autobiographical memory retrieval"
  Memory & Cognition 29 (2001): 1185-1195.
• Maylor, E.A., Chater, N., & Brown, G.D.A.. "Scale invariance in the retrieval of retrospective and prospective memories"
  Psychonomic Bulletin And Review 8 (2001): 162-167.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "The probabilistic approach to human reasoning"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 5 (2001): 349-357.
• Christiansen, M.H., & Chater, N.. "Connectionist psycholinguistics: Capturing the empirical data"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 5 (2001): 82-88.
• Chater, N.. "Contrary views: A review of On the contrary by Paul and Patricia Churchland"
  Studies In Hist And Phil Of Biol And Biom Sciences 31 (2000): 615-627.
• Chater, N.. "The logic of human reasoning"
  Nature 407 (2000): 572-573.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "The rational analysis of mind and behaviour"
  Synthese 122 (2000): 93-131.
• Oaksford, M., Chater, N., & Larkin, J.. "Probabilities and polarity biases in conditional inference"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: LMC 26 (2000): 883-899.
• Chater, N., & Brown, G.D.A.. "Scale invariance as a unifying psychological principle"
  Cognition 69 (1999): B17-B24.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "The probability heuristics model of syllogistic reasoning"
  Cognitive Psychology 38 (1999): 191-258.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Information gain vs decision-theoretic approaches to data selection. Response to Klauer"
  Psychological Review 106 (1999): 223-227.
• Chater, N.. "Why biological neuroscience cannot replace psychology. Open peer commentary on Gold, I. and Stoljar, D. A neuron doctrine in the philosophy of neuroscience"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 22 (1999): 834.
• Chater, N.. "How smart can simple heuristics be? Open peer commentary on Todd, P.M. and Gigerenzer, G. Precis of simple heuristics that make us smart"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 23 (1999): 745-746.
• Chater, N., Vitanyi, P.M.B., & Stewart, N.. "Universal generalization and universal inter-item confusability"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 24 (1999): 559-660.
• Chater, N., & Redington, M.. "Connectionism, theories of learning, and syntax acquisition"
  Journal Of Child Language 26 (1999): 226-232.
• Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N.. "Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance"
  Cognitive Science 23 (1999): 157-205.
• Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N.. "Connectionist natural language processing: The state of the art"
  Cognitive Science 23 (1999): 417-437.
• Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N., & Seidenberg, M.S.. "Connectionist models of human language processing: Progress and prospects."
  Cognitive Science Special Issue 23 (1999): 415-634.
• Oaksford, M., Chater, N., Grainger, R.. "Probabilistic effects in data selection"
  Thinking And Reasoning 5 (1999): 193-243.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Ten years of rational analysis of cognition"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 3 (1999): 57-65.
• Chater, N.. "The search for simplicity: A fundamental cognitive principle?"
  Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology 52A (1999): 273-302.
• Hahn, U., & Chater, N.. "Similarity and Rules: Distinct? Exhaustive? Empirically distinguishable?"
  Cognition 65 (1998): 197-230.
• Hahn, U., & Chater, N.. "Real-world categories don't allow uniform feature spaces - not just across categories but within categories also. Open peer commentary on Schyns, P.G., Goldstone, R.L., & Thibaut, J. The development of features in object concepts."
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 21 (1998): 28.
• Hahn, U., & Chater, N.. "The notion of distal similarity is ill-defined. Open peer commentary on Edelman, S. Representation is representation of similarities"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 21 (1998): 474.
• Hahn, U., & Chater, N.. "What is the dynamical hypothesis? Open peer commentary on van Gelder, T. The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 21 (1998): 633.
• Redington, M., & Chater, N.. "Connectionist and statistical approaches to language acquisition: A distributional perspective"
  Language And Cognitive Processes 13 (1998): 129-191.
• Hahn, U., & Chater, N.. "Understanding similarity: A joint project for psychology, case-based reasoning, and law"
  Artificial Intelligence Review 12 (1998): 393-427.
• Redington, M., Chater, N., & Finch, S.. "Distributional information: A powerful cue for acquiring syntactic categories"
  Cognitive Science 22 (1998): 425-469.
• Chater, N.. "Simplicity and the mind"
  The Psychologist (1997): 495-498.
• Chater, N., & Pickering, M.. "Two projects for understanding the mind: A response to Morris and Richardson"
  Minds And Machines 7 (1997): 553-569.
• Cairns, P., Shillcock, R.C., Chater, N., & Levy, J.. "Bootstrapping word boundaries: A bottom-up corpus-based approach to speech segmentation"
  Cognitive Psychology 33 (1997): 111-153.
• Chater, N.. "What is the type-1/type-2 distinction? Open peer commentary on Clark, A., & Thornton, C. Trading spaces; computation, representation and the limits of uninformed learning"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 20 (1997): 68-69.
• Oaksford, M., Chater, N., Grainger, R., & Larkin, J.. "Optimal data selection in the reduced array selection rask (RAST)"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: LMC 23 (1997): 441-458.
• Redington, M., & Chater, N.. "Probabilistic and distributional approaches to language acquisition"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 1 (1997): 273-281.
• Chater, N.. "Reconciling simplicity and likelihood principles in perceptual organisation"
  Psychological Research 103 (1996): 566-581.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Rational explanation of the selection task"
  Psychological Review 103 (1996): 381-391.
• Redington, M., & Chater, N.. "Transfer in artificial grammar learning: A re-evaluation"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: General 125 (1996): 123-138.
• Bullinaria, J.A. & Chater, N.. "Double Dissociation, Modularity and Distributed Organization"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 19 (1996): 632-632.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Deontic reasoning, modules and innateness: A second look"
  Mind And Language 11 (1996): 191-202.
• Pickering, M., & Chater, N.. "Why cognitive science is not formalized folk psychology"
  Minds And Machines 5 (1995): 309-337.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Information gain explains relevance which explains the selection task"
  Cognition 57 (1995): 97-108.
• Bullinaria, J.A. & Chater, N.. "Connectionist modelling: Implications for neuropsychology"
  Language And Cognitive Processes 10 (1995): 227-64.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Theories of reasoning and computational explanation of everyday inference"
  Thinking And Reasoning 1 (1995): 121-152.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Two and three stage models of deontic reasoning"
  Thinking And Reasoning 1 (1995): 350-357.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection"
  Psychological Review 101 (1994): 608-631.
• Chater, N.. "Modularity, interaction and connectionist neuropsychology"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 17 (1994): 66-67.
• Chater, N., & Heyes, C.. "Animal concepts: Content and discontent"
  Mind And Language 9 (1994): 209-246.
• Christiansen, M., & Chater, N.. "Generalization and connectionist language learning"
  Mind And Language 9 (1994): 273-287.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Another look at eliminative and enumerative behaviour in a conceptual task"
  European Journal Of Cognitive Psychology 6 (1994): 149-169.
• Chater, N.. "Mental models and non-monotonic reasoning"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 16 (1993): 340-341.
• Chater, N,. "Categorization, theories and folk psychology"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 16 (1993): 37.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Logicism, mental models and everyday reasoning"
  Mind And Language 8 (1993): 72-89.
• Abu-Bakar, M., & Chater, N.. "Studying the effects of speaking rate and syllable structure on phonetic perception using recurrent neural networks"
  Irish Journal Of Psychology 14 (1993): 410-425.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Holism and eclecticism in the theory of concepts"
  European Journal Of Cognitive Psychology 5 (1993): 173-182.
• Christiansen, M., & Chater, N.. "Connectionism, learning and meaning."
  Connection Science 4 (1992): 227-252.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Bounded rationality in taking risks and drawing inferences"
  Theory And Psychology 2 (1992): 225-230.
• Chater, N.. "Connectionism and classical computation"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 14 (1991): 493-494.
• Chater, N.. "Network and direct methods of maximizing harmony"
  Behavioral And Brain Sciences 14 (1991): 740-742.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Against logicist cognitive science"
  Mind And Language 6 (1991): 1-38.
• Chater, N., Lyon, K., Myers, T.. "Why are conjunctive categories overextended?"
  Journal Of Experimental Psychology: LMC 16 (1990): 497-508.

Books

• Oaksford, M. and Chater, N.. "Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking"
  Oxford (2010)
• Chater, N.. "Judgement and decision making"
  London (2009)
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M.. "The probabilistic mind: prospects for Bayesian cognitive science"
  Oxford (2008)
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Bayesian Rationality"
  Oxford (2007)
• Hurley, S., & Chater, N. (Eds.). "Perspectives on imitation: From neuroscience to social science, 2 Volume-Set. Volume 1. Mechanisms of imitation and imitation in animals. Volume 2: Imitation, human development and culture"
  Cambridge, MA (2005)
• Christiansen, M.H., & Chater, N.. "Connectionist psycholinguistics"
  Westport, CT (2001)
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Rationality in an uncertain world"
  Hove, England (1998)
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N. (Eds.). "Rational models of cognition"
  Oxford (1998)

Book Chapters

• Pothos, E. M., Chater, N. and Hines, P.. "The simplicity model of unsupervised categorisation"
  Formal Approaches in Categorization (2011): 199-219.
• Chater, N. and Christiansen, M. H.. "A solution to the logical problem of language evolution: language as an adaptation to the human brain"
  The Oxford handbook of language evolution (2011)
• Oaksford, M. and Chater, N.. "Dual systems and dual processes but a single function"
  The science of reason: a festschrift for Jonathan St. B. T. Evans. (2010): 339-352.
• Oaksford, M. and Chater, N.. "Conditional inference and constraint satisfaction: reconciling mental models and the probabilistic approach?"
  Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking (2010)17: 309-333.
• Oaksford, M. and Chater, N.. "Cognition and conditionals: an introduction"
  Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking (2010)1: 3-36.
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M.. "Open issues in cognitive science of conditionals"
  Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking (2010)Epilogue: 389-401.
• Schlottman, A., Shaw, C., Chater, N. and Oaksford, M.. "Causal discounting and conditional reasoning in children"
  Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking (2010): 117-134.
• Chater, N. and Vlaev, I.. "The instability of value"
  Decision making, affect, and learning: attention and performance XXIII (2010)
• Kirby, S., Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N.. "Syntax as an adaptation to the learner"
  Biological foundations and origin of syntax (2010): 325-344.
• Chater, N., Oaksford, M., Hahn, U. and Heit, E.. "Inductive logic and empirical psychology"
  Handbook of the history of logic, Volume 10: Inductive Logic (2010)15: 549-620.
• Oaksford, M., Chater, N., Heit, E. and Hahn, U.. "Bayesian models of cognition"
  Wiley interdisciplinary review: cognitive science (2010)
• Oaksford, M., Chater, N. and Stewart, N.. "Reasoning and decision making"
  The Cambridge handbook of cognitive science (2010)
• Onnis, L., Christiansen, M. and Chater, N.. "Connectionist models of language processing"
  Encyclopaedia of Neuroscience Volume 3 (2009): 83-90.
• Chater, N.. "Half a century of judgement and decision making research"
  Judgement and decision making (2009): xxi-xxxix.
• Chater, N. and Christiansen, M.. "Computational models of psycholinguistics"
  Cambridge handbook of computational psychology (2008)17: 477-504.
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M.. "The probabilistic mind: where next?"
  The probabilistic mind: prospects for Bayesian cognitive science (2008): 501-514.
• Oaksford, M. and Chater, N.. "Probability logic and the Modus Ponens - Modus Tollens asymmetry in conditional inference"
  The probabilistic mind: prospects for Bayesian cognitive science (2008): 97-120.
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M.. "The probabilistic mind: prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science"
  The probabilistic mind: prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science (2008)1: 3-31.
• Oaksford, M., Chater, N. and Hahn, U.. "Human reasoning and argumentation: the probabilistic approach"
  Reasoning: studies of human inference and its foundations (2008)20: 383-413.
• Vlaev, I. and Chater, N.. "Relativity of financial preferences: how choice options influence investment decision making"
  Psychology of decision making in economics, business and finance (2008): 7-36.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Mental mechanisms: Speculations on human causal learning and reasoning."
  In the beginning there is a sample: Information sampling as a key to understanding adaptive cognition (2006): 210-238.
• Juslin, P., Fiedler, K., & Chater, N.. "Less is more in contingency assessment"
  In the beginning there is a sample: Information sampling as a key to understanding adaptive cognition (2006): 92-126.
• Chater, N.. "A minimum description length principle for perception"
  Advances in minimum description length: Theory and applications (2005): 385-410.
• Onnis, L, Christiansen, M., & Chater, N.. "Connectionist models of human language processing"
  Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (2005)
• Chater, N.. "Rational analysis of language processing"
  Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, Volume 10 (2nd edn.) (2005): 363-366.
• Chater, N.. "Formal models and language acquisition"
  Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, Volume 4 (2nd edn.) (2005): 558-564.
• Hurley, S., & Chater, N.. "Introduction: The importance of imitation"
  Perspectives on imitation: From neuroscience to social science (Volume 1) (2005): 1-52.
• Chater, N.. "Mendelian and Darwinian views of memes and cultural change"
  Perspectives on imitation: From neuroscience to social science (Volume 2) (2005): 355-362.
• Roberts, M., Onnis, L., & Chater, N.. "Language Acquisition and Language Evolution: Two puzzles for the price of one"
  Prerequisites for the evolution of language (2005)
• Chater, N., Heit, E., Oaksford, M.. "Reasoning"
  Handbook of Cognition (2004): 297-320.
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Rationality, rational analysis and human reasoning"
  Reasoning: History and philosophy (2004)
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "Rational models of cognition"
  Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science, Volume 3. (2003): 826-829.
• Brown, G.D.A., & Chater, N.. "Connectionist models of children's reading"
  Handbook of Children's Literacy (2003): 67-89.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Probabilities and pragmatics in conditional inference: Suppression and Decision Making"
  Reasoning and Decision Making (2003): 95-122.
• Chater, N., & Christiansen, M.. "Speech processing: Psycholinguistics"
  The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (2003): 1068-1071.
• Christiansen, M., Chater, N.. "Constituency and recursion in language"
  The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (2003): 267-271.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Commonsense reasoning, logic and human rationality"
  Commonsense reasoning and rationality (2002)
• Redington, M., & Chater, N.. "Knowledge Representation and Transfer in Artificial Grammar Learning"
  Implicit Learning and Consciousness (2002)
• Chater, N., & Oaksford, M.. "The rational analysis of human cognition"
  Reason and Nature: Essays in the theory of rationality (2002): 135-174.
• Christiansen, M.H., & Chater, N.. "Connectionist psycholinguistics in perspective"
  Connectionist Psycholinguistics (2001): 19-75.
• Christiansen, M.H., & Chater, N.. "Connectionist psycholinguistics: The very idea"
  Connectionist psycholinguistics (2001): 1-15.
• Christiansen, M.H., & Chater, N.. "Finite models of infinite language: A connectionist approach to recursion"
  Connectionist psycholinguistics (2001): 138-176.
• Shillcock, R.C., Cairns, P., Chater, N., & Levy, J.. "Statistical and connectionist modelling of the development of speech segmentation"
  Models of language acquisition: inductive and deductive approaches (2001)
• Pothos, E.M., & Chater, N.. "Categorization by simplicity: A minimum description length approach to unsupervised clustering"
  Similarity and categorization (2001): 51-72.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "Commonsense reasoning, logic and human rationality"
  Commonsense reasoning and rationality (2000)
• Chater, N., & Christiansen, M.. "Connectionist and natural language processing"
  Language processing (2000): 233-279.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "An introduction to rational models of cognition"
  Rational models of cognition (1998): 1-18.
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "A revised rational analysis of the selection task: Exceptions and sequential sampling"
  Rational models of cognition (1998): 372-398.
• Chater, N., Crocker, M.J., & Pickering, M.J.. "The rational analysis of inquiry: The case of parsing"
  Rational models of cognition (1998): 441-468.
• Hahn, U., & Chater, N.. "Concepts and similarity"
  Knowledge, concepts and categories (1997): 43-92.
• Chater, N., Oaksford, M.. "The falsity of folk theories: Implications for psychology and philosophy"
  The philosophy of psychology (1996)
• Chater, N.. "Neural networks: The new statistical models of mind"
  Connectionist models of memory and language (1995): 207-227.
• Finch, S., Chater, N., Redington, M.. "Acquiring syntactic information from distributional statistics"
  Connectionist models of memory and language (1995): 229-242.
• Abu-Bakar, M., & Chater, N.. "Time-warping tasks and recurrent neural nets"
  Connectionist models of memory and language (1995): 269-289.
• Chater, N., & Christiansen, M.. "The connectionist psycholinguistics of speech processing"
  Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (1995)
• Christiansen, M., & Chater, N.. "Constituency and recursion in connectionist networks"
  Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (1995)
• Oaksford, M., & Chater, N.. "The probabilistic retreat from biases: Implications for man-machine communication?"
  Basics of man-machine communication in the design of educational systems (1994)
• Chater, N.. "Information theory"
  Encyclopaedia of language and linguistics. Volume 3 (1994): 1685-1687.
• Chater, N., & Conkey, P.. "Sequence processing with recurrent neural networks"
  Neurodynamics and psychology (1994): 269-294.
• Finch, S., & Chater, N.. "Learning syntactic categories: a statistical approach"
  Neurodynamics and psychology (1994): 294-321.
• Oaksford, M., Chater, N.. "Reasoning theories and bounded rationality"
  Rationality (1993): 31-60.
• Oaksford, M., Chater, N., & Stenning, K.. "Connectionism, classical cognitive science and experimental psychology"
  Connectionism in context (1990): 57-74.
• Lyon, K. & Chater, N.. "Localist and globalist theories of concepts"
  Lines of thinking. Volume 1 (1990): 41-56.

Other

• Chater, N., & Christiansen, M.. "Two views in linguistic theory: Which connects better with cognitive science?"
  Trends In Cognitive Science 8 (2007): 324-326.