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Tylén, Kristian; Fusaroli, Riccardo; Østergaard, Sara Møller; Smith, Pernille; Arnoldi, Jakob – Cognitive Science, 2023
Capacities for abstract thinking and problem-solving are central to human cognition. Processes of abstraction allow the transfer of experiences and knowledge between contexts helping us make informed decisions in new or changing contexts. While we are often inclined to relate such reasoning capacities to individual minds and brains, they may in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Transfer of Training
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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