Pragmatics in analogical mapping

Article Abstract:

Pragmatic constraints such as, processing goals, and contextual and structural factors influence the analogical mapping processes in generating mappings between non-isomorphic ambiguous analogs. Goal-irrelevant information generates many-to-one mappings. A combination of goal-relevant and goal-irrelevant informations resolves the ambiguity of analogical mapping. Processing goals influence mapping by inhibiting selective attention processes and interacting with other constraints. The Analogical Constraint Mapping Engine model simulates these results.

Research, Analysis, Memory management, Memory mapping, Pragmatics

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The importance of being coherent: Category coherence, cross-classification, and reasoning

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The hypothesis that the degree of coherence of a category influences the extent to which one category will be used over another in property inference is tested. It is concluded that degree of coherence meaningfully applies to natural social categories, and is an important influence on category use in reasoning.

Inference, Reasoning in children, Childhood reasoning

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The role of textual coherence in incremental analogical mapping

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Novel predictions made by LISA about the impact of text coherence on analogical mapping are empirically tested. The experiments reaffirmed the predictions with reference to grouping effects, structural constraints and directional symmetries in analogical mapping within the limits of human working memory.

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