Is tool-making knowledge robust over time and across problems?

Is tool-making knowledge robust over time and across problems?

In three studies, we explored the retention and transfer of tool-making knowledge, learnt from an adult demonstration, to other temporal and task contexts. All studies used a variation of a task in which children had to make a hook tool to retrieve a bucket from a tall transparent tube. Children who failed to innovate the hook tool independently saw a demonstration. In Study 1, we tested childr...

Tracing Metadiscursive Stance over Time and Across Disciplines: A Comparative Study of English Research Articles

Research in academic writing has revealed a strong tendency on the part of writers to interactively communicate their scientific findings with their readers. In doing so, the writers should take a position while arguing their propositions. This interaction as proposed by Hyland (2005b) takes places having two sides of stance and engagement. This study targeted the stance component of writer-rea...

Robust Loop Closing Over Time

Long term autonomy in robots requires the ability to reconsider previously taken decisions when new evidence becomes available. Loop closing links generated by a place recognition system may become inconsistent as additional evidence arrives. This paper is concerned with the detection and exclusion of such contradictory information from the map being built, in order to recover the correct map e...

how robust Is “ socIally robust Knowledge ” ?

131 T he aCaDeMiC Debate on the DeMoCratization of expertise has reached the level of public politics. The U.S. National Research Council, in its study Understanding Risk (Stern and Fineberg 1996), has suggested “collaborative analysis” as a method adding deliberation to risk analysis and risk evaluation, thus opening advisory processes to broader participation. The British House of Lords Selec...

Robust Knowledge Extraction over Large Text Collections