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    "title": "The Patchwork Approach: Toward a Perceptual Theory of Intuitive Physics",
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    "abstract": "Human experience is rich with sensory information, from which\nphysical regularities are internalized to guide behavior. This\npaper presents the Patchwork Approach, a method for modeling\nsensorimotor predictions based on these regularities, without explicitly\nencoding physics. This method leverages environmental\nregularities, enabling resource-rational perceptual predictions.\nUsing data from previous studies (Deeb et al., 2021, 2024) on\nhuman perception, the model outperforms Newtonian-based\nmodels in capturing human prediction errors and interpolates\nacross untested conditions. One test demonstrates its superiority\nin a projectile motion task, while another illustrates its ability\nto predict deflection angles in a collision event from untrained\naiming angles. This approach provides valuable insights into\nhow physical laws are internalized and used to guide perception\nand action–arguing that perception provides foundational\ninput to intuitive physics reasoning, a role that can complement\nand be extended to higher-level cognitive processes like those\nexplained by the Intuitive Physics Engine (IPE).",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Perception; Predictive Processing; Representation; Sensory Processing; Computational Modeling"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Abdul-Rahim",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Deeb",
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            "institution": "Johns Hopkins University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T11:00:00-07:00",
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