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Decompose, Deduce, and Dispose: A Memory-Limited, Metacognitive Model of Human Problem Solving

2025-06-06

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<p>Many real-world problems are defined by complex systems of interlocking constraints. How people are able to solve these problems with such limited working memory capacity remains poorly understood.We propose a formal model of human problem-solving that uses metacognitive knowledge of its own memory limits and imperfect reasoning to guide subproblem choice. We compare our model to human gameplay in two experimen...

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Literature Corpus work: ea938154-31a1-5168-9c2b-b73d76f9401d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/576wm_v1

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