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Analogy is priming, but relations are not transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Fintan J. Costello
Fintan J. Costello
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. fintan.costello@ucd.iehttp://www.cs.ucd.ie/Staff/AcademicStaff/fcostello/
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Abstract

Leech et al. make two proposals: that relational priming is central to analogy, and that relations between objects are best represented as transformations of those objects. Although their account of analogy as relational priming is a useful contribution to our understanding of analogical development, in this commentary I show that relations in general cannot be represented by transformations.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 382 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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