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Towards a Computational Model of Evaluating and Using Analogical Inferences
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Reasoning by analogy is a central phenomena in cognition. Existing computational models of analogy provide accounts of how analogical inferences are generated, but do not specify how they might be evaluated or integrated with other meth...
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Qualitative Mental Models: Simulations or Memories?
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One of the original motivations for qualitative physics research was the creation of a computational account of mental models. For instance, a key intuition often associated with mental models is that they are runnable, i.e., there is a...
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Mental models of population growth: A preliminary investigation
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WITH THE INCREASING dominion of the human species over the planet’s ecology, the study of human cognition has taken on new significance. The growth of human population and activities now affects the general ecology to a significant exte...
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Structure mapping in analogy and similarity.
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ions Keil, 1989 ; Rips, 1989) . For example, bats have the perceptual and behavioral characteristics of birds (they are similar to birds in this sense), but they are classified as mammals, because of important (though nonobvious) proper...
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Analogy just looks like high level perception: why a domain-general approach to analogical mapping is right
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Hofstadter and his colleagues have criticized current accounts of analogy, claiming that such accounts do not accurately capture interactions between processes of representation construction and processes of mapping. They suggest instea...
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The effect of language on similarity: The use of relational labels improves young children’s performance in a mapping task
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INTRODUCTION were unable to preserve the plot strucwre in their mapping, although they could transfer the The ability to use relational similarity is story plot accurately when given similar charconsidered a hallmark of sophisticated th...
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