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Relational priming plays a supporting but not leading role in adult analogy-making

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Alexander A. Petrov
Alexander A. Petrov
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Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. apetrov@alexpetrov.comhttp://alexpetrov.com
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Abstract

Leech et al.'s analysis adds to an emerging consensus of the role of priming in analogy-making. However, their model cannot scale up to adult-level performance because not all relations can be cast as functions. One-size-fits-all accounts cannot capture the richness of analogy. Proportional analogies and transitive inferences can be made by nonstructural mechanisms. Therefore, these tasks do not generalize to tasks that require structure mapping.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 392 - 393
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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