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    "pk": 27463,
    "title": "Simulation and heuristics in flexible tool use",
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    "abstract": "Humans are remarkably flexible tool users. We not only recognize a wide range of existing tools, but also producenew tools by seeing objects in new ways, or by making or repurposing objects to solve a problem confronting us. Here westudy the cognitive processes supporting flexible tool use, including deciding what makes a good tool, and how it should beused. Participants played a video game which requires selecting an object from a set of options and placing it in a virtualphysical scene in order to accomplish goals such as tipping another object over or launching it into a container. People appearto use a combination of simulation-based planning and experience-based heuristics: fast heuristics drive the initial selectionand placement of a candidate tool, and that solution can then be refined by several rounds of mental simulation interspersedwith trial-and-error experimentation to rapidly converge on goal-satisfying solutions.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Posters: Member Abstracts",
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        {
            "first_name": "Kelsey",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Allen",
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            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Kevin",
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            "last_name": "Smith",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Josh",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tenenbaum",
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            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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