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Comparison Facilitates Children's Learning of Names for Parts
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Learning names for parts of objects can be challenging for children, as it requires overcoming their tendency to name whole objects. We test whether comparing items can facilitate learning names for their parts. Applying the structure-m...
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A Comparison of ARCS and MAC / FAC
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cumnt lilcorh and supporting simulations of similaritybased retrieval disagree in their pDcess model of m a n t i c similarity decisions. We compare two current cornputatid simulations d similarity-ked retrieval, h4AC/FAC and ARCS, with...
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Two Forces in the Development of Relational Similarity
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Analogy commands the attention of developmental psychologists, first, because like grammar and mathematics, analogy is a supremely elegant form of thought ; and, second, because of its importance in cognitive development . An appreciati...
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Chapter 4 Relational Language and Relational Thought
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Human cognitive abilities are remarkable. We easily go beyond what is perceptually available to reason about abstract systems. Our cognitive ability to adapt to a vast range of environments, and even to alter our environment to suit our...
Publication · 4d
UIT_Revision.final.doc Nonintentional Similarity 8/14/02 - 1 Running Head: NONINTENTIONAL SIMILARITY Nonintentional Similarity Processing
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ion of metaphorical meanings (much as in the sequential categorization models discussed earlier). This conventionalization process results in the existence of alternative meanings for words that once were active metaphors (Gentner & Wol...
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As time goes by: Evidence for two systems in processing space → time metaphors
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Temporal language is often couched in spatial metaphors. English has been claimed to have two space → time metaphoric systems: the ego-moving metaphor, wherein the observer's context progresses along the time-line towards the future, an...
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Sex and Seniority: The Effects of Linguistic Categories on Conceptual Judgments and Memory
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The current study explored the effects of different semantic categories in kinship terms on similarity judgments, word extensions, and recognition memory. We compared Indonesian ‐ in which sibling terms are based on relative age ‐ with ...
Publication · 4d