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Abstract analogies not primed by relations learned as object transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Steven Phillips
Steven Phillips
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, 305-8568, Japan. steve@ni.aist.go.jphttp://staff.aist.go.jp/steven.phillips
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Abstract

Analogy by priming learned transformations of (causally) related objects fails to explain an important class of inference involving abstract source-target relations. This class of analogical inference extends to ad hoc relationships, precluding the possibility of having learned them as object transformations. Rather, objects may be placed into momentarily corresponding, symbolic, source-target relationships just to complete an analogy.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 393 - 394
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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