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Reasoning Counterfactually in Chinese: Picking up the Pieces
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We review the controversy concerning whether the lack of a clear counterfactual marker in Chinese results in a deficiency in counterfactual reasoning (Au, 1983, 1984; Bloom, 1981, 1984; Liu, 1985). We describe a study in which we compar...
Publication · 4d
Introduction : The Place of Analogy in Cognition
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C. Page Moreau Department of Marketing Cox School of Business Southern Methodist University David L. Oden Department of Psychology La Salle University Alexander A. Petrov Department of Psychology Carnegie Mellon University Steven Philli...
Publication · 4d
Clarifying the Role of Alignability in Similarity Comparisons
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Structure-mapping theory has successfully predicted a number of empirical results concerning ordinary literal similarity processing. In particular, it predicts a distinction between alignable differences—those connected to the common st...
Publication · 4d
How to Go from Nest to Home: Children's Learning of Relational Categories
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How do children learn relational categories such as gift , barrier , or dwelling-of ? In this research we explore two means of promoting relational abstraction: comparison processes and relational labels. In Experiment 1, 6-, 4-, and 3y...
Publication · 4d
The development of relational category knowledge
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Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly . Robins eat worms, dogs chase cats, roses love sunshine . These kinds of relations are as much a part of our understanding of the world as are the direct properties of the entities themselves . Relat...
Publication · 4d
Expertise Effects on Sorting Strategies of Causal Phenomena
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Expertise Effects on Sorting Strategies of Causal Phenomena Benjamin M. Rottman ([email protected]) Cognitive Science, Northwestern University 720 Clark Street #2N, Evanston, IL 60201 USA Dedre Gentner ([email protected])...
Publication · 4d
Using Numbers to Structure Space
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We investigated the claim that relational language promotes the development of relational reasoning (Gentner, 2003). Prior research has shown the benefit of spatial relational language (e.g. top, middle, bottom) in preschoolers’ perform...
Publication · 4d