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Welcome to this open and interactive textbook on theoretical modeling
for cognitive science and psychology.

Table of contents

Part I - Intro

  * Chapter 1 - Introduction
  * Chapter 2 - Conceptual foundations
  * Chapter 3 - Math concepts and notation

Part II - Formalizing

  * Chapter 4 - Subset choice
  * Chapter 5 - Coherence
  * Chapter 6 - Categorization
  * Chapter 7 - Similarity

Part III - Simulating

  * Chapter 8 - Simulating in Scala
  * Chapter 9 - Scala and mathlib
  * Chapter 10 - Subset choice
  * Chapter 11 - Coherence

Part IV - Advanced Topics

  * Chapter 12 - Bayesian Models
  * Chapter 13 - Agent-based Simulations
  * Chapter 14 - Self-organisation and evolution

Cover art

The cover art is by Danielle Navarro (used with permission & released
under CC-BY-SA 4.0).

Danielle Navarro's award-winning open textbook Learning Statistics
with R and open teaching materials R for Psychological Science
inspired us to write this open and online textbook. Choosing her art
for the book's cover represents our gratitude for this inspiration as
much as our love for her artwork.

License

This open textbook is released under a CC-BY 4.0 license and the
Scala software used herein is released under an UGN GPL v3 license or
any later version. This book is written in Jekyll using the
tufte-jekyll theme released under an MIT license. The source code is
available on Github here.

How to cite this book

Blokpoel, M. & van Rooij, I. (2021). Theoretical modeling for
cognitive science and psychology. Retrieved year-month-day from
[URL].

In-progress

At present this book is a living document, some sections have been
written while others are still under construction. If the parts you
are interested in aren't finished yet, please check back at a later
time. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

About the authors

Mark Blokpoel is a computer scientist and computational cognitive
scientist. Iris van Rooij is a psychologist and cognitive scientist.
Both authors are based at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and
Behaviour, Radboud University. Parts of this book were written while
Van Rooij was at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the
Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS). Van Rooij and Blokpoel
previously co-authored Cognition and Intractability with Johan
Kwisthout and Todd Wareham.

Reuse of materials

Parts of this book are based on materials that previously appeared
in:

van Rooij, I., & Baggio, G. (2021). Theory before the test: How to
build high-verisimilitude explanatory theories in psychological
science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

van Rooij, I., & Blokpoel, M. (2020). Formalizing verbal theories: A
tutorial by dialogue. Social Psychology, 51(5), 285-298

Specifically, parts of these papers were reused in the 'Conceptual
Foundations', the 'Math Concepts and Notation', and 'Subset Choice'
chapters.

Acknowledgements

We have learned a lot from participants in courses and workshops that
we taught on the topic over the last 10 years. We would like to thank
them all. This includes hundreds of BSc Artificial Intelligence
students and dozens of Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and
Computer Science BSc, MSc and PhD students who have taken the
Computational & Formal Modeling course at Radboud University. It also
includes PhD students at the Behavioural Science Institute, staff at
the Dept. of Social Psychology at Radboud University, and members of
the Experimental Psychpathology and Affective Neuroscience (EPAN)
research group at the Donders Institute who participated in workshops
that we organized on the topic of this book.

This work has been made possible by a Distinguished Lorentz
Fellowship (DLF) & Prize awarded by NIAS and the Lorentz Center to
Van Rooij and a Language in Interaction grant (nr. 024.001.006)
supporting Blokpoel.

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