Comparison and mapping facilitate relation discovery and predication.
prospective_cohort · Level II
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23825521.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0063889 and PMC identifier 3692476.
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Abstract
Relational concepts play a central role in human perception and cognition, but little is known about how they are acquired. For example, how do we come to understand that physical force is a higher-order multiplicative relation between mass and acceleration, or that two circles are the same-shape in the same way that two squares are? A recent model of relational learning, DORA (Discovery of Relations by Analogy; Doumas, Hummel & Sandhofer, 2008), predicts that comparison and analogical mapping play a central role in the discovery and predication of novel higher-order relations. We report two experiments testing and confirming this prediction.
Medical subject headings
- Cognition
- Learning