Similarity and analogical reasoning / edited by Stella Vosniadou, Andrew Ortony.

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Similarity and analogical reasoning : a synthesis / Stella Vosniadou and Andrew Ortony -- Similarity and the structure of concepts -- Similarity, typicality, and categorization / Lance J. Rips -- Similarity and decision making / Edward E. Smith and Daniel N. Osherson -- Intraconcept similarity and its implications for interconcept similarity / Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Two-tiered concept meaning, inferential matching, and conceptual cohesiveness / Ryszard S. Michalski -- From global similarities to kinds of similarities : the construction of dimensions in development / Linda B. Smith -- Comments on part I: psychological essentialism / Douglas Medin and Andrew Ortony -- Analogical reasoning -- The mechanisms of analogical learning / Dedre Gentner -- A computational model of analogical problem solving / Keith J. Holyoak and Paul R. Thagard.

Use of analogy in a production system architecture / John R. Anderson and Ross Thompson -- Toward a microstructural account of human reasoning / David E. Rumelhart -- Analogy and the exercise of creativity / Philip N. Johnson-Laird -- Comments on part II : levels of description in information-processing theories of analogy / Stephen E. Palmer -- Comments on part II : the role of explanation in analogy; or, the curse of an alluring name / Gerald DeJong -- Similarity and ananlogy in development, learning, and instruction -- Analogical learning and transfer : what develops? / Ann L. Brown -- Analogical reasoning as a mechanism in knowledge acquisition : a developmental perspective / Stella Vosniadou -- Remindings in learning and instruction / Brian H. Ross.

New approaches to instruction : because wisdom can't be told / John D. Bransford [and others] -- Multiple analogies for complex concepts : antidotes for analogy-induced misconception in advanced knowledge acquisition / Rand J. Spiro [and others] -- Comments on part III : the activation and acquisition of knowledge / William F. Brewer -- Afterword: comments on parts I, II, and III : a framework for a theory of comparison and mapping / Allan Collins and Mark Burstein.

Similarity and analogy are fundamental in human cognition. They are crucial for recognition and classification, and have been associated with scientific discovery and creativity. Successful learning is generally less dependent on the memorization of isolated facts and abstract rules than it is on the ability to identify relevant bodies of knowledge already stored as the starting point for new learning. Similarity and analogy play an important role in this process - a role that in recent years has received much attention from cognitive scientists. Any adequate understanding of similarity and analogy requires the integration of theory and data from diverse domains. This interdisciplinary volume explores current developments in research and theory from psychological, computational, and educational perspectives, and considers their implications for learning and instruction. Well-known cognitive scientists examine the psychological processes involved in reasoning by similarity and analogy, the computational problems encountered in simulating analogical processing in problem solving, and the conditions promoting the application of analogical reasoning in everyday situations.