Transferring Primitive Elements of Skill Within and Between Tasks

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 529-534

  Gittelson, Logan J ^a   Taatgen, Niels A ^b  

^a Cognitive Science Department ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Artificial Intelligence ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACTransfer; Balance Beam; primitive information processing elements (PRIMs); Take the Best

Indexed keywords

ACTRANSFER; BALANCE BEAM; ELEMENT-BASED; PRIMITIVE ELEMENT; PRIMITIVE INFORMATION PROCESSING ELEMENT; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; TAKE THE BEST; TASK DEMAND;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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