Reasoning and planning at di¤erent levels of abstraction is an important skill in the game of Go, for both human and computer players. Over the years, adversarial planning approaches have become increasingly popular for dealing with large search spaces of two player games such as Go. This article describes a di¤erent approach to adversarial planning, based on an analysis of human Go playing. Ab...

We investigate the relationship between wealth, smoking, and individual propensities to plan. Planning propensity affects wealth but not smoking, suggesting that planning is not an allpurpose skill. Financial planning may draw on different abilities than those that facilitate smoking cessation. ∗ This research has been supported in part by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Subst...

The design and coordination of independent specialized skill units (often called action primitives) is fundamental to modern robotics. However, a robot that must act in a complex environment over an extended period of time should do more than just use existing skills: it should learn new skills that increase its capabilities and facilitate later problem solving. Although robots exist that can l...

The authors investigated the influence of goal orientation on sales performance in a longitudinal field study with salespeople. As hypothesized, a learning goal orientation had a positive relationship with sales performance. This relationship was fully mediated by 3 self-regulation tactics: goal setting, effort, and planning. In contrast, a performance goal orientation was unrelated to sales pe...

background : nursing is a skill oriented discipline. in clinical training, learning process is mainly related to performance. moreover, developing skills is one of the main goals of clinical training, because it is through frequent practice that one can develop a skill. this study aimed to determine the frequency of practicing basic skills during nursing students' traineeship. methods: this was...

The motivation for integrating humans into a service robot system is to take advantage of human intelligence and skill. Human i telligence can be used to interpret robot sensor data, eliminating computationally expensive and possibly error-prone automated analyses. Human skill is a valuable resource for trajectory and path planning as well as for simplifying the search process. In this paper we...

This review discusses the cerebral plasticity, and the role of the cortico-striatal system in particular, observed as one is learning or planning to execute a newly learned motor behavior up to when the skill is consolidated or has become highly automatized. A special emphasis is given to imaging work describing the neural substrate mediating motor sequence learning and motor adaptation paradig...

We present a comprehension-based computational model of UNIX user skill acquisition and performance in a training context (UNICOM). The work extends a comprehension-based theory of planning to account for skill acquisition and learning. Individual models of 22 UNIX users were constructed and used to simulate user performance on successive command production problems in a training context. Compa...