Analogical Transfer From a Simulated Physical System

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 551-567

  Day, Samuel B ^a   Goldstone, Robert L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Mental models; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 79955745326     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022333     Document Type: Article

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