TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison and Mapping Facilitate Relation Discovery and Predication
AU - Doumas, Leonidas A. A.
AU - Hummel, John E.
PY - 2013/6/25
Y1 - 2013/6/25
N2 - 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
AB - 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
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0063889
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0063889
M3 - Article
VL - 8
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 6
M1 - e63889
ER -