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Simulating Time-Course Phenomena in Perceptual Similarity via Incremental Encoding
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Simulating Time-Course Phenomena in Perceptual Similarity via Incremental Encoding Andrew Lovett ([email protected]) Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University 2133 Sherida...
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Metaphor Processing, Psychology of
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A metaphor is a statement that characterizes one thing in terms of another thing, juxtaposing concepts from separate domains of experience. Metaphor can be used to describe abstract or unfamiliar topics, and to express ideas difficult t...
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Naming motion events in Spanish and English
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Abstract This research asked whether speakers are influenced by systematic semantic patterns in their language in forming new word meanings. We used the novel word mapping technique (Nagy and Gentner 1990) to test whether English and Sp...
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Analogical Reasoning, Psychology of
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Analogical reasoning is a kind of reasoning that applies between specific exemplars or cases, in which what is known about one exemplar is used to infer new information about another exemplar. The basic intuition behind analogical reaso...
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ABSTRACTION PROCESSES DURING CONCEPT LEARNING: A STRUCTURAL VIEW
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ION PROCESSES DURING CONCEPT LEARNING: A STRUCTURAL VIEW Janice Skorstad Dedre Gentner Doug Medin Computer Science Department Psychology Department Psychology Department University of Illinois University of Illinois University of Illinois
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The Verb Mutability Effect: Noun and Verb Semantics in English and Japanese
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The Verb Mutability Effect: Noun and Verb Semantics in English and Japanese Caitlin M. Fausey ([email protected]) Department of Psychology, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg 420 Stanford, CA 94305 USA Hanako Yoshida ([email protected]) ...
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