The effects of relational structure on analogical learning

Cognition

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 280-300

  Corral, Daniel ^a   Jones, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Relational category learning; Relational structure; Schema elaboration; Schema refinement; Structured representation

Indexed keywords

ANALOGICAL LEARNING; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIONAL STRUCTURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84900860027     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.007     Document Type: Article

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