Intuitive physical reasoning about objects’ masses transfers to a visuomotor decision task consistent with Newtonian physics
Fig 5
Residuals of estimated press times and inferred masses in phase two for three cost functions.
(A) Residuals were calculated for each participant and each puck in phase two (”feedback”) given the actual press-times and the best fits for the linear heuristics and the Newtonian model. Residuals for both models were calculated for all three cost functions. (B) MAP estimates of the masses used by individual subjects inferred according to the Newtonian model for the the three cost functions. Red and yellow pucks had different masses for subjects in the two conditions “heavy-to-light” and “light-to-heavy”.