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No way to start a space program: Associationism as a launch pad for analogical reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Keith J. Holyoak  and
John E. Hummel
Keith J. Holyoak
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
John E. Hummel
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Champaign–Urbana, Champaign, IL 61820. holyoak@lifesci.ucla.eduhttp://reasoninglab.psych.ucla.edu/jehummel@cyrus.psych.uiuc.eduhttp://www.psych.uiuc.edu/people/showprofile.php?id=543
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Abstract

Humans, including preschool children, exhibit role-based relational reasoning, of which analogical reasoning is a canonical example. The “role-less” connectionist model proposed in the target article is only capable of conditional paired-associate learning.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 388 - 389
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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