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Parsons, John-Dennis; Davies, Jim – Cognitive Science, 2022
Analogical reasoning is a core facet of higher cognition in humans. Creating analogies as we navigate the environment helps us learn. Analogies involve reframing novel encounters using knowledge of familiar, relationally similar contexts stored in memory. When an analogy links a novel encounter with a familiar context, it can aid in problem…
Descriptors: Correlation, Thinking Skills, Schemata (Cognition), Inferences
Shepard, Roger N. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Examples from Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and others suggest that fundamental laws of physics were--or, at least, could have been--discovered by experiments performed not in the physical world but only in the mind. Although problematic for a strict empiricist, the evolutionary emergence in humans of deeply internalized implicit…
Descriptors: Physics, Ethics, Epistemology, Abstract Reasoning
Linhares, Alexandre; Brum, Paulo – Cognitive Science, 2007
There is a crucial debate concerning the nature of chess chunks: One current possibility states that chunks are built by encoding particular combinations of pieces-on-squares (POSs), and that chunks are formed mostly by "close" pieces (in a "Euclidean" sense). A complementary hypothesis is that chunks are encoded by abstract,…
Descriptors: Play, Semantics, Educational Games, Memory
Dixon, James A.; Bangert, Ashley S. – Cognitive Science, 2004
People spontaneously discover new representations during problem solving. Discovery of a mathematical representation is of special interest, because it shows that the underlying structure of the problem has been extracted. In the current study, participants solved gear-system problems as part of a game. Although none of the participants initially…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics, Mathematical Aptitude, Mathematics Skills
Larkey, Levi B.; Markman, Arthur B. – Cognitive Science, 2005
Similarity underlies fundamental cognitive capabilities such as memory, categorization, decision making, problem solving, and reasoning. Although recent approaches to similarity appreciate the structure of mental representations, they differ in the processes posited to operate over these representations. We present an experiment that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Mapping, Models