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Semantic constraints on lexical categories
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Abstract Children are prodigious word learners, able to gain substantial information about a word's meaning on the basis of even a single encounter with the word in context. Two experiments are reported which test the hypothesis that th...
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Historical Shifts in the Use of Analogy in Science.
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Abstract : Analogy is widely considered to be an important mechanism of scientific thinking and a source of creative insight in theory development. This paper considers the implicit constraints that determine analogical soundness. First...
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Evidence for Structural Alignment during Similarity Judgments.
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Abstract : Similarity plays a central role in cognitive theories. Much research has been devoted to understanding what makes a pair of objects similar. This research has demonstrated that the similarity of a pair increases with its comm...
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All differences are not created equal: A structural alignment view of similarity
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An emerging view in cognitive psychology is that the determination of similarity involves a comparison of structured representations. On this view, some differences are related to the commonalities of a pair (alignable differences) and ...
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MACIFAC: A Model of Si~ i~ ari~-~ s~ Retrieval
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We present a model of similarity-based retrieval that attempts to capture three seemingly contradictory psychological phenomena: (a) structural commonalities are weighed more heavily than surface commonalities in similarity judgments fo...
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Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences
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Abstract : The Final Proceedings for International Workshop on Advances in Analogy Research. Topics include: (1) Artificial Intelligence, (2) Computational Modeling, (3) Cognitive Psychology, (4) Developmental Psychology, (5) Neuropsych...
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