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Partial Mental Simulation Explains Fallacies in Physical Reasoning

2021-11-29

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<p>People can reason intuitively, efficiently, and accurately about everyday physical events. Recent accounts suggest that people use mental simulation to make such intuitive physical judgments. But mental simulation models are computationally expensive; how is physical reasoning relatively accurate, while maintaining computational tractability? We suggest that people make use of partial simulation, mentally movin...

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Literature Corpus work: 62eb7bb9-e70b-5622-a2f7-eb42d4fd3092
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/y4a8x

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