LazyWeb: Please help our reading group find papers on cognitive science perspectives on abstraction. Primary interest is in programming, but abstraction in math would also be welcome. Less so physical science, even less farther afield, though of course classics are welcome.
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Thanks, this is just the sort of stuff I was looking for!
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Pennington paper is creative experimental work on using chunks to identify whether programmers mentally represent programs as data-flow, control-flow, etc. Letovsky paper uses careful analysis of protocols w/ experts to characterize bottom-up vs. top-down reasoning & schemata.
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Anderson et al. builds a production system to mirror protocols of novices learning Lisp. Early cognitive tutor work. Useful to think about how to model complex mental processes like reasoning by analogy.
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cognitive psychology. PhD