{"pk":30710,"title":"A Dynamical Theory of the Powe-Law of Learning in Problem-Solving","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The ubiquitous power-law of practice has been a touch-tone of cognitive models. It predicts that the speed of performance of a task will improve as the power of the number of times that the task is performed. In this paper we derive the power-law from a graph dynamical theory of learning by considering change^ in problem->space graph topology due to the addition of operators,and alterations in the decision-procedure used to decide which operator to apply at a particular.The general approach of applying dynamical principle.-^ to cognitive problems holds much promise in unifying other' areas of learning and intelligent activity.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"learning"},{"word":"Chunking. Macro Operator Formation. Power-Law Speedup. Problem-Solving"},{"word":"Practice."}],"section":"Paper Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31t5v901","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jeff","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shrager","name_suffix":"","institution":"Xerox PARC","department":""},{"first_name":"Tad","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hogg","name_suffix":"","institution":"Xerox PARC","department":""},{"first_name":"Bernardo","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Huberman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Xerox PARC","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1988-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30710/galley/20559/download/"}]}