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Child versus adult analogy: The role of systematicity and abstraction in analogy models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Angela Schwering
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, D-49076 Osnabrück, Germany. aschweri@uni-osnabrueck.dehttp://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~aschweri/kkuehnbe@uni-osnabrueck.dehttp://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~kkuehnbe/
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, D-49076 Osnabrück, Germany. aschweri@uni-osnabrueck.dehttp://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~aschweri/kkuehnbe@uni-osnabrueck.dehttp://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~kkuehnbe/

Abstract

The target article develops a computational connectionist model for analogy-making from a developmental perspective and evaluates this model using simple analogies. Our commentary critically reviews the advantages and limits of this approach, in particular with respect to its expressive power, its capability to generalize across analogous structure and analyze systematicity in analogies.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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