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COGSCI
2016
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Investigating Conversational Dynamics: Interactive Alignment, Interpersonal Synergy, and Collective Task Performance
This study investigates interpersonal processes underlying dialog by comparing two approaches, interactive alignment and interpersonal synergy, and assesses how they predict colle...
Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén
COGSCI
2016
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Self-Directed Learning Favors Local, Rather Than Global, Uncertainty
Collecting (or “sampling”) information that one expects to be useful is a powerful way to facilitate learning. However, relatively little is known about how people decide whic...
Douglas Markant, Burr Settles, Todd M. Gureckis
COGSCI
2016
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Rapid Learning in a Children's Museum via Analogical Comparison
We tested whether analogical training could help children learn a key principle of elementary engineering—namely, the use of a diagonal brace to stabilize a structure. The conte...
Dedre Gentner, Susan C. Levine, Raedy M. Ping, Ash...