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Analogical Inference in Automatic Interpretation
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We present findings suggesting that analogical inference can play a role in the fundamental processes involved in automatic comprehension and interpretation. Participants were found to use information from a prior relationally similar e...
Publication · 4d
Structural Alignment Facilitates Discovering Differences
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What can differences tell us about the process of comparison? The structural alignment model posits that psychologically salient differences arise out of commonalities (Markman & Gentner, 1993) . This leads to the counterintuitive predi...
Publication · 4d
Analogical Learning in Negotiation Teams : Comparing Cases Promotes Learning and Transfer
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We used structure-mapping theory (Gentner, 1983) to study learning in negotiation teams. We instructed some teams to compare two training cases and identify a key negotiation principle; other teams were given the same two cases to study...
Publication · 4d
Factors Involved in the Use of In and On
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What factors influence people’s use of spatial prepositions? In this paper, we examine the influence of four factors – geometry of the Ground, function of the Ground, animacy of the Ground, and animacy of the Figure – on the use of Engl...
Publication · 4d
Learning and Transfer: A General Role for Analogical Encoding
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Teaching by examples and cases is widely used to promote learning, but it varies widely in its effectiveness. The authors test an adaptation to case-based learning that facilitates abstracting problem-solving schemas from examples and u...
Publication · 4d
Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought
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The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists...
Publication · 4d
Is the future always ahead? Evidence for system-mappings in understanding space-time metaphors
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Languages often use spatial terms to talk about time. FRONT-BACK spatial terms are the terms most often imported from SPACE to TIME cross-linguistically . However, in English there are two different metaphorical mapping systems assignin...
Publication · 4d
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Analogies ;are powerful ways to understand how things work in a new domain. We think this is because analogies enable people to construct a structure-mapping that carries across the way the components in a system interact. This allows p...
Publication · 4d