Overhang Tower: Resource-Rational Adaptation in Sequential Physical Planning

arXiv:2604.09072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans effortlessly navigate the physical world by predicting how objects behave under gravity and contact forces, yet how such judgments support sequential physical planning under resource constraints remains poorly understood. Research on intuitive physics debates whether prediction relies on the Intuitive Physics Engine (IPE) or fast, cue-based heuristics; separately, decision-making research debates deliberative lookahead versus myopic strategi