Research
Find research shared by the Owlstown community.
Why some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others: The typological prevalence hypothesis
Abstract
F or me (Dedre) Dan has been a protean figure. 1 first met him when I was a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego and he was a young professor at Berkeley. He was brilliant, charismatic, and compelling, yet at time...
Publication · 5d
Models and Analogies in Conceptual Restructuring
Abstract
Models and Analogies in Conceptual Restructuring Moderator: Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) Northwestern University, Department of Psychology 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 Participants: Theodore Arabatzis (tarabatz@phs...
Publication · 5d
Developmental changes in children's understanding of the similarity between photographs and their referents.
Abstract
In a series of three experiments, we investigated the development of children's understanding of the similarities between photographs and their referents. Based on prior work on the development of analogical understanding (e.g. Gentner ...
Publication · 5d
Outsourcing the Inference Evaluation in Causal Analogies
Abstract
Outsourcing the Inference Evaluation in Causal Analogies Julie Colhoun Northwestern University Dedre Gentner Northwestern University Abstract: In recent papers, Lee & Holyoak (2007, 2008a, 2008b) argue that models of analogy (ACME, LISA...
Publication · 5d
1 ANALOGY AND MORAL DECISION MAKING
Abstract
It is well known that analogy plays an important role in the process of decision making. However, this role has not yet been systematically examined in the domain of moral decision making. This paper investigates the role of cultural na...
Publication · 5d
Drawing on Experience: Use of Sketching to Evaluate Knowledge of Spatial Scientific Concepts
Abstract
Drawing on Experience: Use of Sketching to Evaluate Knowledge of Spatial Scientific Concepts Benjamin D. Jee ([email protected]) 1 Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) 1 Kenneth Forbus ([email protected]) 2 Bradley Sagema...
Publication · 5d
Dark knowledge in qualitative reasoning: A call to arms
Abstract
While people do qualitative reasoning, there is ample evidence that they do not always do it well. Two current crises, human-induced climate change and the financial meltdown, can be traced in part to faulty mental models. The QR commun...
Publication · 5d
Reviving Inert Knowledge: Analogical Abstraction Supports Relational Retrieval of Past Events
Abstract
We present five experiments and simulation studies to establish late analogical abstraction as a new psychological phenomenon: Schema abstraction from analogical examples can revive otherwise inert knowledge. We find that comparing two ...
Publication · 5d
Modeling perceptual similarity as analogy resolves the paradox of difference detection
Abstract
There is a paradoxical dissociation between recognizing that two stimuli are different and recognizing how they are different. We show that this dissociation can be captured by modeling perceptual similarity as a species of analogical p...
Publication · 5d