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Sloman, Sabina J.; Goldstone, Robert L.; Gonzalez, Cleotilde – Cognitive Science, 2021
How do people use information from others to solve complex problems? Prior work has addressed this question by placing people in social learning situations where the problems they were asked to solve required varying degrees of exploration. This past work uncovered important interactions between groups' "connectivity" and the problem's…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Information Utilization, Models
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Lake, Brenden M.; Lawrence, Neil D.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. – Cognitive Science, 2018
Both scientists and children make important structural discoveries, yet their computational underpinnings are not well understood. Structure discovery has previously been formalized as probabilistic inference about the right structural form--where form could be a tree, ring, chain, grid, etc. (Kemp & Tenenbaum, 2008). Although this approach…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Intuition, Bias, Computation