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Language and the career of similarity.
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Similarity has been cast both as hero and as villain in theories of cognitive processing, and the same is true for cognitive development. On the positive side, Rosch and her colleagues have suggested that similarity is an initial organi...
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Analogy-- Watershed or Waterloo? Structural alignment and the development of connectionist models of analogy
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Neural network models have been criticized for their inability to make use of compositional representations. In this paper, we describe a series of psychological phenomena that demonstrate the role of structured representations in cogni...
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Structural Alignment during Similarity Comparisons
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Similarity comparisons are a basic component of cognition, and there are many elegant models of this process. None of these models describe comparisons of structured representations, although mounting evidence suggests that mental repre...
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The Roles of Similarity in Transfer: Separating Retrievability From Inferential Soundness
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Similarity is universally acknowledged to be central in transfer, but recent research suggests that its role is complex. The present research attempts to isolate and compare the determinants of similarity-based access to memory and the ...
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The shift from metaphor to analogy in western science
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Analogy and metaphor are central to scientific thought. They figure in discovery, as in Rutherford's analogy of the solar system for the atom or Faraday's use of lines of magnetized iron filings to reason about electric fields (Nersessi...
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