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Metaphor: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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Metaphor is a pervasive and important phenomenon, both in literature and in ordinary language. It is also an immensely variable phenomenon. The term 'metaphor' is often used to refer to nonliteral comparisons that are novel and vivid an...
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Analogical Processing: A Simulation and Empirical Corroboration
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This paper compares the performance of the Structure-Mapping Engine (SME), a cognitive simulation of analogy, with two aspects of human performance. Gentner's Structure-Mapping theory predicts that soundness is highest for relational ma...
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Analogical Inference and Analogical Access.
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Abstract : Analogy is a powerful technique in commonsense learning and reasoning. People use analogies in problem solving, in developing mental models of a new domain, and in communicating knowledge. To model these natural uses of analo...
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Metaphor as Structure Mapping: The Relational Shift.
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GENTNER, DEDRE. Metaphor as Structure Mapping: The Relational Shift. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1988, 59, 47-59. The goal of this research is to clarify the development of metaphor by using structure-mapping theory to make distinctions among ki...
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Analogical mapping during similarity judgments
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We propose that carrying out a similarity comparison of two objects or scenes requires that their components be aligned in a manner akin to analogical mapping . We present an experiment which supports this claim and then examine a compu...
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Remembering Causal Systems: Effects of Systematicity and Surface Similarity in Delayed Transfer
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Transfer between functionally isomorphic devices can be viewed as a kind of analogical mapping. In this research subjects learned to operate a computer-simulated device and then transferred to a functionally-equivalent device, either im...
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Transfer of training as analogical mapping
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Research was conducted to clarify the role of similarity in transfer of training. Subjects learned a procedure for operating a simulated device and were asked to transfer the knowledge of the procedure to a new device. Two factors were ...
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Structural Evaluation of Analogies : What Counts?
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Judgments of similarity and soundness are important aspects of human analogical processing. This paper explores how these judgments can be modeled using SME, a simulation of Gentner's structure-mapping theory. We focus on structural eva...
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