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From: valdes@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Raul Valdes-Perez)
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Subject: Re: Some Sequence Prediction Work (actually, synthesis of regexprs)
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Date: 4 Dec 89 14:36:31 GMT
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Simon & Kotovsky wrote a program in an attempt to reproduce human
ability and shortcomings in sequence-extrapolation tasks.  The 
justification of this research was:  people arrive at answers on
such tasks, despite the logical impossibility of a unique answer;
how can one explain this empirical phenomenon?  Read the paper to
know how well they did.

Later, Klahr & Wallace wrote a program for the same task, without
any intent to model human problem-solving, just to have it "work"
well.

The first reference is "Human acquisition of concepts for sequential 
patterns," Psychological Review, 70, 534-546.  
The second is "The development of serial completion strategies:  An
information-processing analysis," British Journal of Psychology, 61(2), 
243-257.

Raul Valdes-Perez
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Raul E. Valdes-Perez


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