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research and eng @anthropic | previously cogsci @princeton, research eng manager @uber. all posts reflect personal opinions only etc etc 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.