Laura Schulz: Cognitive Development and Commonsense Reasoning, Part 2, & Joshua Tenenbaum: Machine vs. Human Learning and Development of Intuitive Physics

Topics: (Laura Schulz) Inferential economics; learning from instruction vs. exploration (Gweon, Pelton, Schulz, Cognitive Science 2011); rational learning through play
(Joshua Tenenbaum): General introduction to the CBMM research thrust on Development of Intelligence; introduction to the concept of probabilistic programs; learning as theory building; learning physics from dynamic scenes (Ullman, Stuhlmuller, Goodman, Tenenbaum, in prep 2014); hierarchical modeling approach, from meta-theories to theories to events; stages of childrens’ development of intuitive physics concepts