Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: Relations play a central role in human perception and cognition, but little is known about how relational concepts are acquired and predicated.For example, how do we come to understand that physical force is a higher-order multiplicative relation between mass and acceleration?We report an experiment demonstrating that structure mapping (a.k.a., analogical mapping) plays a key role in the predication of novel higher-order relations.This finding suggests that structure mapping-i.e., the appreciation of analogies-may play a pivotal role in the acquisition and predication of novel relational concepts.
Authors: Leonidas A. A. Doumas, John E. Hummel
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2765722766