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    "pk": 29058,
    "title": "Learning a novel rule-based conceptual system",
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    "abstract": "Humans have developed complex rule-based systems to explain and exploit the world around them. When a learner hasalready mastered a system’s core dynamicsidentifying its primitives and their interrelationsfurther learning can be effec-tively modeled as discovering useful compositions of these primitives. It nevertheless remains unclear how the dynamicsthemselves might initially be acquired. Composing primitives is no longer a viable strategy, as the primitives themselvesare what must be explained. To explore this problem, we introduce and assess a novel concept learning paradigm in whichparticipants use a two-alternative forced-choice task to learn an unfamiliar rule-based conceptual system: the MUI system(Hofstadter, 1980). We show that participants reliably learn this system given a few dozen examples of the systems rules,leaving open the mechanism by which novel conceptual systems are acquired but providing a useful paradigm for furtherstudy.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Poster Presentations with Abstracts",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j3214nc",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rule",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Josh",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tenenbaum",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Steven",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Piantadosi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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