Analogical insight: Toward unifying categorization and analogy

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 331-345

  Dietrich, Eric ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Analogy; Categorization; Concepts; Insight; Knowledge change; Knowledge representation; Mapping; Psychological distance; Representational change; Retrieving; Understanding

Indexed keywords

ANALOGY; CATEGORIZATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPT FORMATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; THINKING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 78649687203     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-010-0367-7     Document Type: Review

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