Journal Articles

• Chater, N., Zeitoun, H. and Melkonyan, T. A. (2018) "The social character of moral reasoning - Commentary on : Joshua May : regard for reason in the moral mind", Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Reali, F., Chater, N. and Christiansen, M. H. (2018) "Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary : how population size affects language", Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, 1871, 20172586
• Chater, N., Misyak, J. B., Watson, D. G., Griffiths, N. and Mouzakitis, A. (2018) "Negotiating the traffic : can cognitive science help make autonomous vehicles a reality?", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 2, 93-95
• Melkonyan, T. A., Zeitoun, H. and Chater, N. (2018) "Collusion in Bertrand versus Cournot competition : a virtual bargaining approach", Management Science, 64, 12, 5599-5609
• Liu, C., Vlaev, I., Fang, C., Denrell, J. and Chater, N. (2017) "Strategizing with biases : engineering choice contexts for better decisions using the Mindspace approach", California Management Review, 59, 3, 135-161
• Vitanyi, P. M. B. and Chater, N. (2017) "Identification of probabilities", Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 76, Part A, 13-24
• Kunar, M. A., Watson, D. G., Tsetsos, K. and Chater, N. (2017) "The influence of attention on value integration", Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 6, 1615-1627
• Sanborn, A. N. and Chater, N. (2017) "The sampling brain", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 7, 492-493
• Kunar, M. A., Watson, D. G., Tsetsos, K. and Chater, N. (2017) "The influence of attention on value integration", Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 6, 1615-1627
• Chater, N. and Loewenstein, G. (2016) "The under-appreciated drive for sense-making", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 126, Part B, 137-154
• Misyak, J. B., Noguchi, T. and Chater, N. (2016) "Instantaneous conventions : the emergence of flexible communicative signals", Psychological Science, 27, 12, 1550-1561
• Moat, H. S., Olivola, C. Y., Chater, N. and Preis, T. (2016) "Searching choices : quantifying decision-making processes using search engine data", Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 685-696
• Sanborn, A. N. and Chater, N. (2016) "Bayesian brains without probabilities", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 12, 883-893
• Chater, N. and Schwarzlose, R. F. (2016) "Thinking about Thinking : 28 years on", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 11, 787
• Liu, C., Eubanks, D. L. and Chater, N. (2015) "The weakness of strong ties : sampling bias, social ties, and nepotism in family business succession", The Leadership Quarterly, 26, 3, 419-435
• Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (2015) "The language faculty that wasn't : a usage-based account of natural language recursion", Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1182
• Vlaev, I., Seymour, B., Chater, N., Winston, J. S., Yoshida, W., Wright, N., Symmonds, M. and Dolan, R. (2014) "Prices need no preferences : social trends determine decisions in experimental markets for pain relief", Health Psychology , 33, 1, 66-76
• Misyak, J. B., Melkonyan, T. A., Zeitoun, H. and Chater, N. (2014) "Unwritten rules : virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 18, Number 10, 512-519
• Misyak, J. B. and Chater, N. (2014) "Virtual bargaining : a theory of social decision-making", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: B. Biological Sciences, Volume 369, Number 1655
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2014) "Probabilistic single function dual process theory and logic programming as approaches to non-monotonicity in human vs. artificial reasoning", Thinking & Reasoning, Volume 20, Number 2, 269-295
• Winston, J. S., Vlaev, I., Seymour, B., Chater, N. and Dolan, R. J. (2014) "Relative valuation of pain in human orbitofrontal cortex", Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 34, Number 44, 14526-14535
• Moat, H. S., Preis, T., Olivola, C. Y., Liu, C. and Chater, N. (2014) "Using big data to predict collective behavior in the real world", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 37, Number 01, 92-93
• Johansson, P., Hall, L., T��rning, B., Sikstr��m, S. and Chater, N. (2014) "Choice blindness and preference change : you will like this paper better if you (believe you) chose to read it!", Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Volume 27, Number 3, 281-289
• Baronchelli, A., Chater, N., Christiansen, M. H. and Pastor-Satorras, R. (2013) "Evolution in a changing environment", PLoS ONE, Vol.8, No.1, e52742
• Crupi, V., Chater, N. and Tentori, K. (2013) "New axioms for probability and likelihood ratio measures", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 64, Number 1, 189-204
• Fulop, S. and Chater, N. (2013) "Why formal learning theory matters for cognitive science", Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 5, Number 1, 3-12
• Hsu, A. S., Chater, N. and Vit��nyi, P. M. B. (2013) "Language learning from positive evidence, reconsidered : a simplicity-based approach", Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 5, Number 1, 35-55
• Baronchelli, A., Ferrer-i-Cancho, R., Pastor-Satorras, R., Chater, N. and Christiansen, M. H. (2013) "Networks in cognitive science", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 17, Number 7, 348-360
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2013) "Dynamic inference and everyday conditional reasoning in the new paradigm", Thinking & Reasoning, Volume 19, Number 3-4, 346-379
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (2013) "Programs as causal models : speculations on mental programs and mental representation", Cognitive Science, Volume 37, Number 6, 1171-1191
• Gardiner, E. and Chater, N. (2013) "Guarding against collective failures", Nursing Management, 20, 2, 11-11
• Rezlescu, C., Duchaine, B., Olivola, C. Y. and Chater, N. (2012) "Unfakeable facial configurations affect strategic choices in trust games with or without information about past behavior", PLoS ONE, Vol.7, No.3, e34293
• Chater, N. and Vlaev, I. (2012) "Social projection without evidential reasoning", Psychological Inquiry, Vol.23, No.1, 35-38
• Baronchelli, A., Chater, N., Pastor-Satorras, R. and Christiansen, M. H. (2012) "The biological origin of linguistic diversity", PLoS One, Vol.7, No.10, e48029
• Tsetsos, K., Chater, N. and Usher, M. (2012) "Salience driven value integration explains decision biases and preference reversal", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 109, Number 24, 9659-64
• Kusev, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., Schaik, P. and Chater, N. (2012) "Modeling judgment of sequentially presented categories using weighting and sampling without replacement", Behavior Research Methods, Volume 44, Number 4, 1129-1134
• Kusev, P., Ayton, P., Van Schaik, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., Stewart, N. and Chater, N. (2011) "Judgments relative to patterns : how temporal sequence patterns affect judgments and memory", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Performance and Perception, Vol.37, No.6, 1874-1886
• Hsu, A. S., Chater, N. and Vit��nyi, P. M. B. (2011) "The probabilistic analysis of language acquisition : theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis", Cognition, Vol.120, No.3, 380-390
• Chater, N., Goodman, N., Griffiths, T. L., Kemp, C., Oaksford, M. (. and Tenenbaum, J. B. (2011) "The imaginary fundamentalists : the unshocking truth about Bayesian cognitive science", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.34, No.4, 194-196
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N., Stewart, N. and Brown, G. D. A. (2011) "Does the brain calculate value?", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol.15, No.11, 546-554
• Christiansen, M. H., Reali, F. and Chater, N. (2011) "Biological adaptations for functional features of language in the face of cultural evolution", Human Biology, Volume 83, Number 2, 247-259
• Ali, N., Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (2011) "The mental representation of causal conditional reasoning : mental models or causal models", Cognition, Volume 119, Number 3, 403-418
• Janssen, C. P., Brumby, D. P., Dowell, J., Chater, N. and Howes, A. (2011) "Identifying optimum performance trade-offs using a cognitively bounded rational analysis model of discretionary task interleaving", Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol.3, No.1, 123-139
• Otto, P. E., Chater, N. and Stott, H. (2011) "The psychological representation of corporate ���personality���", Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol.25, No.4, 605-614
• Vlaev, I., Kusev, P., Stewart, N., Aldrovandi, S. and Chater, N. (2010) "Domain effects and financial risk attitudes", Risk Analysis, Vol.30, No.9, 1374-1386
• Vousden, J. I., Ellefson, M. R., Solity, J. and Chater, N. (2010) "Simplifying reading : applying the simplicity principle to reading", Cognitive Science, Vol.35, No.1, 34-78
• Chater, N., Oaksford, M. (., Hahn, U. and Heit, E. (2010) "Bayesian models of cognition", Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Vol.1, No.6, 811-823
• Chater, N. and Christiansen, M. H. (2010) "Language acquisition meets language evolution", Cognitive Science, Vol.34, No.7, 1131-1157
• Bechtel, W., Behrmann, M., Chater, N., Glushko, R. J., Goldstone, R. L. and Smolensky, P. (2010) "The Rumelhart Prize at 10", Cognitive Science, Vol.34, No.5, 713-715
• Chater, N. and Christiansen, M. H. (2010) "Language evolution as cultural evolution : how language is shaped by the brain", Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Vol.1, No.5, 623-628
• Griffiths, T. L., Chater, N., Kemp, C., Perfors, A. and Tenenbaum, J. B. (2010) "Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol.14, No.8, 357-364
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2010) "Causation and conditionals in the cognitive science of human reasoning", The Open Psychology Journal, Vol.3, 105-118
• Kurniawan, I. T., Seymour, B., Talmi, D., Yoshida, W., Chater, N. and Dolan, R. J. (2010) "Choosing to make an effort : the role of striatum in signaling physical effort of a chosen action", Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol.104, No.1, 313-321
• Hsu, A. S. and Chater, N. (2010) "The logical problem of language acquisition : a probabilistic perspective", Cognitive Science, Vol.34, No.6, 972-1016
• Kurniawan, I. T., Seymour, B., Vlaev, I., Trommershauser, J., Dolan, R. J. and Chater, N. (2010) "Pain relativity in motor control", Psychological Science, Vol.21, No.6, 840-847
• Ungemach, C., Chater, N. and Stewart, N. (2009) "Are probabilities overweighted or underweighted when rare outcomes are experienced (rarely)?", Psychological Science, Vol.20, No.4, 473-479
• Reimers, S., Maylor, E. A., Stewart, N. and Chater, N. (2009) "Associations between a one-shot delay discounting measure and age, income, education and real-world impulsive behavior ", Personality and Individual Differences, Vol.47, No.8, 973-978
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N. and Stewart, N. (2009) "Dimensionality of risk perception : factors affecting consumer understanding and evaluation of financial risk", Journal of Behavioral Finance, 10, 3, 158-181
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N., Lewis, R. and Davies, G. (2009) "Reason-based judgments : using reasons to decouple perceived price-quality correlation", Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol.30, No.5, 721-731
• Chater, N., Reali, F. and Christiansen, M. H. (2009) "Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.106, No.4, 1015-1020
• Hodgetts, C. J., Hahn, U. and Chater, N. (2009) "Transformation and alignment in similarity", Cognition, Vol.113, No.1, 62-79
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2009) "Pr��cis of Bayesian rationality : the probabilistic approach to human reasoning", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.32, No.1, 69-84
• Otto, P. E., Davies, G. B., Chater, N. and Stott, H. (2009) "From spending to understanding : analyzing customers by their spending behavior", Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Vol.16, No.1, 10-18
• Raafat, R. M., Chater, N. and Frith, C. (2009) "Herding in humans", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol.13, No.10, 420-428
• Vlaev, I., Seymour, B., Dolan, R. and Chater, N. (2009) "The price of pain and the value of suffering", Psychological Science, Vol.20, No.3, 309-317
• Nick Chater (2009) "Rational and mechanistic perspectives on reinforcement learning", Cognition, Vol.113, No.3, 350-364
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (2009) "Local and global inferential relations : response to Over (2009)", Thinking & Reasoning, Vol.15, No.4, 439-446
• Vlaev, I., Stewart, N. and Chater, N. (2008) "Risk preference discrepancy : a prospect relativity account of the discrepancy between risk preferences in laboratory gambles and real world investments ", Journal of Behavioral Finance, Vol.9, No.3, 132-148
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N. and Stewart, N. (2008) "Seeing is not enough : manipulating choice options causes focusing and preference change in multiattribute risky decision-making", Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol.21, No.5, 556-574
• Chater, N. and Brown, G. D. A. (. D. A. (2008) "From universal laws of cognition to specific cognitive models", Cognitive Science, Vol.32, No.1, 36-67
• Chater, N., Vlaev, I. and Grinberg, M. (2008) "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, 3, 403-421
• Roberts, M. A. J. and Chater, N. (2008) "Using statistical smoothing to estimate the psycholinguistic acceptability of novel phrases", Behavior Research Methods, Vol.40, No.1, 84-93
• Vlaev, I. and Chater, N. (2008) "Debiasing context effects in strategic decisions : playing against a consistent opponent can correct perceptual but not reinforcement biases", Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 6, 463-474
• Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (2008) "Language as shaped by the brain", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.31, No.5, 489-509
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N. and Stewart, N. (2007) "Relativistic financial decisions : context effects on retirement saving and investment risk preferences", Judgment and Decision Making, Vol.2, No.5, 292-311
• Vlaev, I., Chater, N. and Stewart, N. (2007) "Financial prospect relativity : context effects in financial decision-making under risk", Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol.20, No.3, 273-304
• Vlaev, I. and Chater, N. (2007) "Context effects in games : local versus global sequential effects on choice in the prisoner's dilemma game", Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 6, 380-389
• Stewart, N., Chater, N. and Brown, G. D. A. (2006) "Decision by sampling", Cognitive Psychology, Vol.53, No.1, 1-26
• Neath, I., Brown, G. D. A., McCormack, T., Chater, N. and Freeman, R. (2006) "Distinctiveness models of memory and absolute identification : evidence for local, not global, effects", Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol.59, No.1, 121-135
• Stewart, N., Brown, G. D. A. and Chater, N. (2005) "Absolute identification by relative judgment", Psychological Review, Vol.112, No.4, 881-911
• Stewart, N., Chater, N., Stott, H. P. and Reimers, S. (2003) "Prospect relativity: how choice options influence decision under risk.", Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol.132, No.1, 23-46
• Chater, N. and Vit��nyi, P. (2003) "Simplicity : a unifying principle in cognitive science?", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 1, 19-22
• Stewart, N. and Chater, N. (2002) "The effect of category variability in perceptual categorization", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol.28, No.5, 893-907
• Chater, N., Vit��nyi, P. M. B. and Stewart, N. (2001) "Universal generalization and universal inter-item confusability", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.24, No.4, 659-660
• Maylor, E. A., Chater, N. and Jones, G. V. (. V. (2001) "Searching for two things at once: evidence of exclusivity in semantic and autobiographical memory retrieval", Memory & Cognition, Vol.29, No.8, 1185-1195
• Maylor, E. A., Chater, N. and Brown, G. D. A. (. D. A. (2001) "Scale invariance in the retrieval of retrospective and prospective memories", Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Vol.8, No.1, 162-167
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. () "Holism and eclecticism in the theory of concepts ", European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 5, 2, 173-182
• Redington, M. and Chater, N. () "Transfer in artificial grammar learning : A reevaluation", Journal of experimental psychology : general, 125, 2, 123-138
• Nick Chater () "Simplicity and the mind ", The Psychologist (Bulletin), 10, 11, 495-498
• Nick Chater () "Cognitive Science as an Interface Between Rational and Mechanistic Explanation", Topics in Cognitive Science, 6, 2, 331-337
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (2000) "The Rational Analysis Of Mind And Behavior", Synthese, 122, 1/2, 93-131
• Oaksford, M. (., Chater, N. and Larkin, J. (2000) "Probabilities and polarity biases in conditional inference", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 4, 883-899
• Chater, N. and Brown, G. D. A. (. D. A. (1999) "Scale-invariance as a unifying psychological principle", Cognition, Vol.69, No.3, B17-B24
• Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (1999) "Connectionist natural language processing : The state of the art", Cognitive Science, 23, 4, 417-437
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (1999) "Information gain and decision-theoretic approaches to data selection : Response to Klauer (1999)", Psychological Review, 106, 1, 223-227
• Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (1999) "Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance", Cognitive Science, 23, 2, 157-205
• Nick Chater (1999) "Why biological neuroscience cannot replace psychology", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 5, 834-834
• Oaksford, M. (., Chater, N. and Grainger, B. (1999) "Probabilistic Effects in Data Selection", Thinking & Reasoning, 5, 3, 193-243
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (1999) "Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 2, 57-65
• Hahn, U. and Chater, N. (1998) "Understanding similarity : A joint project for psychology, case-based reasoning, and law", Artificial Intelligence Review, 12, 5, 393-427
• Redington, M. and Chater, N. (1998) "Connectionist and Statistical Approaches to Language Acquisition : A Distributional Perspective", Language and Cognitive Processes, 13, 2-3, 129-191
• Hahn, U. and Chater, N. (1998) "Real-world categories don't allow uniform feature spaces ��� not just across categories but within categories also", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 1, 28-28
• Nick Chater (1997) "Bootstrapping word boundaries : A bottom-up corpus-based approach to speech segmentation", Cognitive Psychology, 33, 2, 111-153
• Oaksford, M. (., Chater, N., Grainger, B. and Larkin, J. (1997) "Optimal data selection in the reduced array selection task (RAST).", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 2, 441-458
• Nick Chater (1997) "What is the type-1/type-2 distinction?", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 1, 68-69
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (1996) "Deontic reasoning, modules and innateness : a second look", Mind & Language, 11, 2, 191-202
• Nick Chater (1996) "Reconciling simplicity and likelihood principles in perceptual organization", Psychological Research, 103, 3, 566-581
• Bullinaria, J. A. and Chater, N. (1996) "Double dissociation, modularity, and distributed organization", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 04, 632
• Bullinaria, J. A. and Chater, N. (1996) "Double dissociation, modularity, and distributed organization", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 4, 632
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (1995) "Two and three stage models of deontic reasoning ", Thinking And Reasoning, 1, 4, 350-357
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (1995) "Theories of reasoning and the computational explanation of everyday inference", Thinking & Reasoning, 1, 2, 121-152
• Bullinaria, J. A. and Chater, N. (1995) "Connectionist modelling : Implications for cognitive neuropsychology", Language and Cognitive Processes, 10, 3-4, 227-264
• Pickering, M. and Chater, N. (1995) "Why cognitive science is not formalized folk psychology", Minds and Machines, 5, 3, 309-337
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (1994) "Another look at eliminative and enumerative behaviour in a conceptual task", European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 6, 2, 149-169
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (1994) "A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection", Psychological Review, 101, 4, 608-631
• Chater, N. and Heyes, C. M. (1994) "Animal concepts : content and discontent", Mind & Language, 9, 3, 209-246
• Nick Chater (1994) "Modularity, interaction and connectionist neuropsychology", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 1, 66-67
• Chater, N. and Abubakar, M. (1993) "Studying the effects of speaking rate and syllable structure on phonetic perception using recurrent neural networks", Irish Journal of Psychology, 14, 3, 410-425
• Nick Chater (1993) "Mental models and non-monotonic reasoning ", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 340-341
• Nick Chater (1993) "Categorization, theories and folk psychology", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 1, 37
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (1993) "Logicism, Mental Models and Everyday Reasoning : Reply to Garnham", Mind & Language, 8, 1, 72-89
• Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (1992) "Connectionism, learning and meaning", Connection Science, 4, 3-4, 227-252
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (1992) "Bounded rationality in taking risks and drawing inferences", Theory & Psychology, 2, 2, 225-230
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (1991) "Against logicist cognitive science", Mind & Language, 6, 1, 1-38
• Nick Chater (1991) "Network and direct methods of maximising harmony", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 04, 740-742
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (1990) "Autonomy, implementation and cognitive architecture : a reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn", Cognition, Vol.34, No.1, 93-107
• Chater, N., Lyon, K. and Myers, T. (1990) "Why are conjunctive categories overextended?", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 3, 497-508
• Nick Chater (1990) "Connectionism and classical computation", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 3, 493-494

Journal Items

• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2011) "The ���is-ought fallacy��� fallacy", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.34, No.5, 262-263
• Christiansen, M. H., Chater, N. and Reali, F. (2009) "The biological and cultural foundations of language", Communicative & Integrative Biology , Vol.2, No.3, 221-222
• Brown, G. D. A. (. D. A., Neath, I. and Chater, N. (2008) "Serial and free recall : common effects and common mechanisms? a reply to Murdock (2008)", Psychological Review, Vol.115, No.3, 781-785
• Brown, G. D. A., Neath, I. and Chater, N. (2007) "A temporal ratio model of memory", Psychological Review, Vol.114, No.3, 539-576
• Olivers, C. N. L., Chater, N. and Watson, D. G. (2004) "Holography does not account for goodness : a critique of van der Helm and Leeuwenberg (1996)", Psychological Review, Vol.111, No.1, 242-260
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (2001) "Human rationality and the psychology of reasoning : Where do we go from here?", British Journal of Psychology, 92, Part 1, 193-216
• Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (2001) "Connectionist psycholinguistics : capturing the empirical data", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 2, 82-88
• Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (2001) "The probabilistic approach to human reasoning", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 8, 349-357
• Nick Chater (2000) "How smart can simple heuristics be?", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 5, 745-746
• Nick Chater (2000) "Cognitive science - The logic of human learning", Nature, 407, 6804, 572-573
• Chater, N. and Redington, M. (1999) "Connectionism, theories of learning, and syntax acquisition : where do we stand?", Journal of Child Language, 26, 1, 226-232
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (1999) "The probability heuristics model of syllogistic reasoning", Cognitive Psychology, 38, 2, 191-258
• Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (1999) "Connectionist models of human language processing : Progress and prospects", Cognitive Science, 23, 4, 415-437
• Nick Chater (1999) "The search for simplicity : A fundamental cognitive principle?", Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology, 52, 2, 273-302
• Hahn, U. and Chater, N. (1998) "The notion of distal similarity is ill defined", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 4, 474-475
• Chater, N. and Hahn, U. (1998) "What is the dynamical hypothesis?", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 5, 633-634
• Redlington, M., Chater, N. and Finch, S. (1998) "Distributional information : A powerful cue for acquiring syntactic categories", Cognitive Science, 22, 4, 425-469
• Hahn, U. and Chater, N. (1998) "Similarity and rules: distinct? exhaustive? empirically distinguishable?", Cognition, 65, 2-3, 197-230
• Chater, N. and Pickering, M. (1997) "Two projects for understanding the mind : A response to Morris and Richardson", Minds and Machines, 7, 4, 553-569
• Redington, M. and Chater, N. (1997) "Probabilistic and distributional approaches to language acquisition", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 7, 273-281
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (1995) "Information gain explains relevance which explains the selection task ", Cognition, 57, 1, 97-108

Book Items

• Chater, N., Misyak, J. B., Melkonyan, T. A. and Zeitoun, H. (2016) "Virtual bargaining : building the foundations for a theory of social interaction", Routledge, Abingdon, UK
• Oaksford, M. (., Chater, N. and Stewart, N. (2012) "Reasoning and decision making", Part II: Aspects of Cognition, Chapter 7, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Chater, N. and Christiansen, M. H. (2012) "A solution to the logical problem of language evolution: language as an adaptation to the human brain", Chapter 65, 626-639, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Brown, G. D. A. (. D. A., Wood, A. M. and Chater, N. (2012) "Sources of variation within the individual", 227-241, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Chater, N. and Vlaev, I. (2011) "The instability of value", Chapter 4, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Pothos, E., Chater, N. and Hines, P. (2011) "The simplicity model of unsupervised categorisation", Chapter 9, 199-219, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2010) "Conditional inference and constraint satisfaction: reconciling mental models and the probabilistic approach? ", Chapter 17, 309-333, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Oaksford, M. (., Chater, N., Schlottman, A. and Shaw, C. (2010) "Causal discounting and conditional reasoning in children", Chapter 7, 117-134, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Chater, N., Oaksford, M. (., Hahn, U. and Heit, E. (2010) "Inductive logic and empirical psychology", Vol.10, Chapter 15, 549-620, North Holland, Amsterdam ; New York: North-Holland
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2010) "Dual systems and dual processes but a single function", 339-352, Psychology Press, Hove, Sussex
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2010) "Cognition and conditionals: an introduction", Chapter 1, 3-36, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2010) "Open issues in cognitive science of conditionals.", Epilogue, 389-401, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Heller, K., Sanborn, A. N. and Chater, N. (2009) "Hierarchical learning of dimensional biases in human categorization", Neural Information Processing Systems, La Jolla, C.A.
• Kirby, S., Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (2009) "Biological foundations and origin of syntax", Chapter 15, 325-344, M I T Press, Cambridge
• Onnis, L., Christiansen, M. H. and Chater, N. (2009) "Connectionist models of language processing", Vol.3, 83-90, Academic Press, Amsterdam ; London
• Nick Chater (2009) "Half a century of judgement and decision making research", Vol.1, xxi-xxxix, Sage Publications Ltd., London, UK
• Chater, N. and Christiansen, M. H. (2008) "Computational models of psycholinguistics", Chapter 17, 477-504, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (2008) "The probabilistic mind : prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science", 1st Edition, Chapter 1, 3-32, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Chater, N. and Oaksford, M. (. (2008) "The probabilistic mind : where next?", 1st Edition, Chapter 22, 501-514, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Oaksford, M. (. and Chater, N. (2008) "Probability logic and the Modus Ponens : Modus Tollens asymmetry in conditional inference", Chapter 5, 97-120, Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Oaksford, M. (., Chater, N. and Hahn, U. (2008) "Human reasoning and argumentation: the probabilistic approach", 383-413, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
• Vlaev, I. and Chater, N. (2008) "Relativity of financial preferences : how choice options influence investment decision making", Chapter 1, 7-36, Nova Science Publishers, New York
• Brown, G. D. A. (. D. A. and Chater, N. (2004) "Connectionist models of children's reading", 67-89, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht ; London
• Nick Chater (2004) "Rationality, rational analysis and human reasoning", Psychology Press, Hove ; New York
• Brown, G. D. A. (. D. A. and Chater, N. (2001) "The chronological organization of memory : common psychological foundations for remembering and timing", 77-110, Clarendon Press, Oxford