cogsci at princeton, former eng manager at uber. I like zen and statistics: I think they're different approaches to handling uncertainty in the world. he/him.
Dec 7, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Humans use a wide variety of teaching strategies. To teach you chess, I could *demonstrate* how rooks move (dragging one across the board) or use *language* to explain ("this piece moves in straight lines"). Our new work in #cognition compares modalities!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1gCBc2Hx2pjBM
We developed a collaborative teaching game where participants taught Boolean concepts using these modalities: either moving an avatar to demonstrate the concept, or explaining it in natural language.
