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New Frontiers in Computational Models of Grammatical Development - eScholarship
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New Frontiers in Computational Models of Grammatical Development Micah B. Goldwater 1 ([email protected]), Scott Friedman 2 , Dedre Gentner 1 , Ken Forbus 2 Department of Psychology 1 ; Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sc...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Language and Cognition in Development
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representation of the support relation. In contrast, infants who had heard general phrases, novel words, or no words at all during habituation failed to notice the change in relations even for familiar objects; they attended to a change...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Detecting anomalous features in complex stimuli: the role of structured comparison.
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The ability to detect anomalies in perceived stimuli is critical to a broad range of cognitive tasks, yet acquiring this ability often requires lengthy practice. In this research, we asked whether findings from research on analogical co...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Relational labels can improve relational retrieval
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Relational labels can improve relational retrieval Anja Jamrozik ([email protected]) Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) Department of Psychology, Northwestern University 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 USA Abstr...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Comparison promotes learning and transfer of relational categories.
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We investigated the effect of co-presenting training items during supervised classification learning of novel relational categories. Strong evidence exists that comparison induces a structural alignment process that renders common relat...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Finding faults: analogical comparison supports spatial concept learning in geoscience
Publication · October 16, 2024
Relational words have high metaphoric potential
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What influences the likelihood that a word will be used metaphorically? We tested whether the likelihood of metaphorical use is related to the relationality of a word’s meaning. Relational words name re lations between entities. We pred...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input
Publication · October 16, 2024
Analogical Learning and Reasoning
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Analogy is a kind of similarity in which the same system of relations holds across different objects. Analogies thus capture parallels across different situations. When such a common structure is found, then what is known about one situ...
Publication · October 16, 2024