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Analogical Comparison Promotes Theory-of-Mind Development

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Analogical Processes in Language Learning

Analogical processes in children's understanding of spatial representations

scientific article published on 30 March 2017

Analogy and Abstraction

scientific article

Analogy-- Watershed or Waterloo? Structural alignment and the development of connectionist models of analogy

scientific article published in January 1993

As time goes by: Evidence for two systems in processing space → time metaphors

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Auditory presentation leads to better analogical retrieval than written presentation

scientific article published in December 2007

Bootstrapping the Mind: Analogical Processes and Symbol Systems

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Causal Systems Categories: Differences in Novice and Expert Categorization of Causal Phenomena

scientific article published on May 16, 2012

Comparison promotes learning and transfer of relational categories

scientific article

Comparison within pairs promotes analogical abstraction in three-month-olds

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Computational models of analogy

scientific article published on 20 September 2010

Detecting anomalous features in complex stimuli: the role of structured comparison

scientific article published in September 2013

Developmental changes in children's understanding of the similarity between photographs and their referents

scientific article published in January 2008

Do iconic gestures pave the way for children's early verbs?

scientific article published on November 2014

Does language about similarity play a role in fostering similarity comparison in children?

scientific article published on 12 June 2009

Effects of language and similarity on comparison processing

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Efforts to Encourage Multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society

scientific article published on January 1998

Evidence from machines that learn and think like people

scientific article published in January 2017

Extending SME to Handle Large-Scale Cognitive Modeling

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Finding faults: analogical comparison supports spatial concept learning in geoscience

scientific article published on 24 February 2013

Generating explanations via analogical comparison

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Introduction to the special issue on spatial learning and reasoning processes

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Language as cognitive tool kit: How language supports relational thought

scientific article

Language helps children succeed on a classic analogy task

scientific article published on 12 November 2013

Making a silk purse out of two sow's ears: young children's use of comparison in category learning

scientific article published in March 2002

Mental Models

Nonintentional analogical inference in text comprehension

scientific article published on January 2007

On the acquisition of abstract knowledge: structural alignment and explication in learning causal system categories

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Prelinguistic Relational Concepts: Investigating Analogical Processing in Infants

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Psychology in cognitive science: 1978-2038.

scientific article published in July 2010

Rapid Learning in a Children's Museum via Analogical Comparison

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Relational categories are more mutable than entity categories

scientific article published on 02 August 2016

Relational language and the development of relational mapping

scientific article published on 11 January 2005

Relations, objects, and the composition of analogies

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Resistance is futile: the unwitting insertion of analogical inferences in memory

scientific article published in August 2005

Respects for similarity

Reviving Inert Knowledge: Analogical Abstraction Supports Relational Retrieval of Past Events

scientific article published on September 30, 2009

Sensitivity to Relational Similarity and Object Similarity in Apes and Children

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Spatial analogies pervade complex relational reasoning: Evidence from spontaneous gestures

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Spatial cognition in apes and humans

scientific article published on 23 March 2007

Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: evidence from children who lack language input

scientific article

Spatial language influences memory for spatial scenes

scientific article published on March 2007

Structure Mapping and Relational Language Support Children’s Learning of Relational Categories

scientific article published on May 11, 2011

Structure mapping in analogy and similarity

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Structure-Mapping in Metaphor Comprehension

scientific article published on September 19, 2011

The career of metaphor

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

The role of comparison in preschoolers' novel object categorization

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examples

scientific article (publication date: November 1989)

Well-Hidden Regularities: Abstract Uses of in and on Retain an Aspect of Their Spatial Meaning

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

What Difference Reveals About Similarity

scientific article published on May 11, 2012