Using analogical mapping to simulate time-course phenomena in perceptual similarity

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 216-228

  Lovett, Andrew ^a   Gentner, Dedre ^a   Forbus, Kenneth ^a   Sagi, Eyal ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Computational modeling; Same different task; Visual similarity

Indexed keywords

ANALOGY; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; MAPPING PROCESS; PERCEPTUAL SIMILARITIES; SAME-DIFFERENT TASK; TIME COURSE; VISUAL SCENES; VISUAL SIMILARITY;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 67349261572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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