How do people see, simplify, and solve problems?

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk734

Keywords:

problem solving, mental models, planning, cognitive science

Abstract

Psychologists, philosophers, and engineers have long known that the way we think about problems affects the way we solve them. Our recent paper proposes and tests a unifying theory of problem simplification that provides a new perspective on this age-old topic.

Author Biography

Mark Ho, New York University

Assistant Professor

Original article reference

Ho, M. K., Abel, D., Correa, C. G., Littman, M. L., Cohen, J. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). People construct simplified mental representations to plan. Nature, 606(7912), 129–136. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04743-9

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Published

2023-08-18

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2023): TheScienceBreaker

Section

Psychology

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