Before revision:  Additionally, our model asserts that human expectations should depend critically on the different topological scales in a transition network, a prediction that we subsequently test and validate in a novel experiment. Generally, our results highlight the important role of mental errors in shaping abstract representations , and directly inspire new physically-motivated models of human behavior .
After revision:  Together, these results suggest that mental errors influence our abstract representations of the world in significant and predictable ways, with direct implications for the study and design of optimally learnable information sources .