How Do Infants Reason about Physical Events

By R. Baillargeon, Jie Li, Y. Gertner, Di Wu. 2010

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The limits and potentials of deep learning for robotics (2018, background): “Humans, on the other hand, operate under intuitive rather than exact physical models [6], [7], [10], [45], [74], [88].”
Object Individuation and Physical Reasoning in Infancy: An Integrative Account (2012, background): “Our account of physical reasoning in infancy (e.g., Baillargeon, Li, Gertner, & Wu, 2011; Baillargeon, Li, Ng, & Yuan, 2009a; Baillargeon, Wu, Yuan, Li, & Luo, 2009b; Wang & Baillargeon, 2008b) builds on work by numerous researchers in the infant and adult cognition literatures.”
Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines (2021, background): “Our results thus quantitatively support the qualitative picture in which an intuitive, approximate understanding of those laws gives rise to humans’ outstanding ability to predict and generalize to previously unseen physical phenomena from an early age [60, 15, 5, 49].”
PIP: Physical Interaction Prediction via Mental Imagery with Span Selection (2021, background): “The ﬁrst category of AI approaches [6, 7, 8] draws inspiration from developmental psychology research, which centers around the notion that humans acquire a general physical understanding of the world through an intuitive physics engine within our cognition [9, 10, 6, 11].”