Leech, Robert and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2003) A connectionist account of analogical development. In: 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2003, July 31 - August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Abstract
We present a connectionist model that provides a mechanistic account of the development of simple relational analogy completion. Drawing analogies arises as a bi-product of pattern completion in a network that learns input/output pairings representing relational information. Analogy is achieved by an initial example of a relation priming the network such that the subsequent presentation of an input produces the correct analogical response. The results show that the model successfully solves simple A:B::C:D analogies and that its developmental trajectory closely parallels that of children. Finally, the model makes two strong empirical predictions.
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| Additional Information: | Copyright and all rights therein are retained by the authors. Edited by Richard Alterman and David Kirsh and published online by the Cognitive Science Society: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2003/mac/index.html |
| School or Research Centre: | Birkbeck Schools and Research Centres > School of Science > Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Sandra Plummer |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2007 14:51 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 12:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/612 |
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