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Direct linkWilliam P. McCarthy; David Kirsh; Judith E. Fan – Cognitive Science, 2023
The ability to reason about how things were made is a pervasive aspect of how humans make sense of physical objects. Such reasoning is useful for a range of everyday tasks, from assembling a piece of furniture to making a sandwich and knitting a sweater. What enables people to reason in this way even about novel objects, and how do people draw…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Scientific Concepts, Manipulative Materials, Task Analysis
