Can children resist making interpretations when uncertain?

Can children resist making interpretations when uncertain?

In two experiments, we examined young children's ability to delay a response to ambiguous input. In Experiment 1, 5- and 6-year-olds performed as poorly when they needed to choose between basing an interpretation on ambiguous input and delaying an interpretation as when making explicit evaluations of knowledge, whereas 7- and 8-year-olds found the former task easy. In Experiment 2, 5- and 6-yea...

When Can Finite Testing Ensure Infinite Trustworthiness?

In this paper we contribute to the general philosophical‎ ‎question as to whether empirical testing can ever prove a physical law.‎ ‎Problems that lead to this question arise under several contexts‎, ‎and the ‎matter has been addressed by the likes of Bayes and Laplace‎. ‎After pointing‎ ‎out that a Bayesian approach is the proper way to address this problem‎, ‎we‎ ‎show that the answ...

When does action resist visual illusions?

Over the past decade, many studies of non-pathological individuals have reported functional dissociations between perceptual judgments and motor responses. These results suggested an interpretation of the ventral and dorsal streams in the primate visual system as independent modules for visual awareness and the visual guidance of actions. However, recent comparisons of perception and grasping r...

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Universit a Di Pisa Making Abstract Interpretations Complete Making Abstract Interpretations Complete

Completeness in abstract interpretation is an ideal situation where the abstract semantics is able to take full advantage of the power of representation of the underlying abstract domain. Thus, complete abstract interpretations can be rightfully considered as optimal. In this article , we develop a general theory of completeness in abstract interpretation, also dealing with the most frequent ca...