On the acquisition of abstract knowledge: Structural alignment and explication in learning causal system categories

Cognition

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 137-153

  Goldwater, Micah B ^a   Gentner, Dedre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Categorization; Causal learning; Education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; PHYSIOLOGY;

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING;

EID: 84921997006     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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