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    "pk": 27754,
    "title": "Learning to act by integrating mental simulations and physical experiments",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "People can learn about the effects of their actions either by\nperforming physical experiments or by running mental sim-\nulations. Physical experiments are reliable but risky; mental\nsimulations are unreliable but safe. We investigate how peo-\nple negotiate the balance between these strategies. Participants\nattempted to shoot a ball at a target, and could pay to take\npractice shots (physical experiments). They could also simply\nthink (run mental simulations), but were incentivized to act\nquickly by paying for time. We demonstrate that the amount\nof thinking time and physical experiments is sensitive to trial\ncharacteristics in a way that is consistent with a model that\nintegrates information across simulation and experimentation\nand decides online when to perform each.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "mental simulation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Intuitive physics"
        },
        {
            "word": "Sampling"
        },
        {
            "word": "Metareasoning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42c7q898",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ishita",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dasgupta",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Harvard University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Kevin",
            "middle_name": "A",
            "last_name": "Smith",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Eric",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schulz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Harvard University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "B",
            "last_name": "Tenenbaum",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Samual",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Gershman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Harvard University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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