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Similarity and Analogical Reasoning

By Andrew Ortony , Stella Vosniadou

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
0521389356, 9780521389358, 0521362954, 9780521362955
LCC
BF446 .S56 1989
Open Library ID
OL2035687M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10099492 bytes)
Pages
606\606
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Similarity and analogy are fundamental in human cognition. They are crucial for recognition and classification, and have been associated with scientific discovery and creativity. Any adequate understanding of similarity and analogy requires the integration of theory and data from diverse domains. This interdisciplinary volume explores current development in research and theory from psychological, computational, and educational perspectives, and considers their implications for learning and instruction. The distinguished contributors examine the psychological processes involved in reasoning by similarity and analogy, the computational problems encountered in simulating analogical processing in problem solving, and the conditions promoting the application of analogical reasoning in everyday situations.

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