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    A connectionist account of analogical development

    Leech, Robert and Mareschal, Denis and Cooper, Richard P. (2003) A connectionist account of analogical development. In: Alterman, R. and Kirsch, D. (eds.) CogSci 2003: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2003. Cognitive Science Society, Inc., pp. 710-715. ISBN 9780805849912.

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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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    Item Type: Book Section
    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: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Educational Neuroscience, Centre for, Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD)
    Depositing User: Sandra Plummer
    Date Deposited: 19 Nov 2007 14:51
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:47
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/612

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