A5049216983- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Topic Modeling
- Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Memory Processes and Influences
University of California, Los Angeles
2015-2024
University of California System
2008-2023
University of California, Berkeley
2009-2016
UCLA Health
2006-2016
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
2016
California Department of Education
1989-2003
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
2001
University of Göttingen
2001
Max Planck Society
1997
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1993
Part 1 First steps: a bird's backyard analogic from Socrates to Velcro and Vietnam indirect communication ripples in the air creative connections overview. 2 Breaking loose: funes chains reacting thinking similarity structure models purpose cause summary. 3 The analogical ape: sameness what Sarah thinks how thought evolved analogies of apes invention problems hitting wall 4 child: Lori's magic carpet toward system mapping first relations early relational personification next steps 5...
A theory of analogical mapping between source and target analogs based upon interacting structural, semantic, pragmatic constraints is proposed here. The structural constraint isomorphism encourages mappings that maximize the consistency relational corresondences elements two analogs. semantic similarity supports hypotheses to degree mapped predicates have similar meanings. centrality favors involving analogist believes be important in order achieve purpose for which analogy being used....
We describe an integrated theory of analogical access and mapping, instantiated in a computational model called LISA (Learning Inference with Schemas Analogies). represents predicates objects as distributed patterns activation over units representing semantic primitives. These representations are dynamically bound into propositional structures, thereby achieving the structure-sensitivity symbolic system flexibility connectionist system. also has number inherent limitations, including...
The use of analogy in human thinking is examined from the perspective a multiconstraint theory, which postulates 3 basic types constraints: similarity, structure, and purpose. operation these constraints apparent laboratory experiments on naturalistic settings, including politics, psychotherapy, scientific research. theory has been implemented detailed computational simulations analogical mind.
The authors present a theory of how relational inference and generalization can be accomplished within cognitive architecture that is psychologically neurally realistic. Their proposal form symbolic connectionism: connectionist system based on distributed representations concept meanings, using temporal synchrony to bind fillers roles into structures. specific instantiation their in the computer simulation model, Learning Inference with Schemas Analogies (LISA). By kind self-supervised...
The integration of multiple relations between mental representations is critical for higher level cognition. For both deductive- and inductive-reasoning tasks, patients with prefrontal damage exhibited a selective catastrophic deficit in the relations, whereas anterior temporal lobe damage, matched overall IQ but intact cortex, normal relational integration. In contrast, performed more accurately than on tests episodic memory semantic knowledge. These double dissociations suggest that...
Recent constraint satisfaction models of explanation, analogy, and decision making claim that these processes are influenced by bidirectional constraints promote coherence. College students were asked to reach a verdict in complex legal case involving multiple conflicting arguments, including alternative analogies the target case. Participants rated agreement with individual arguments both isolation before seeing again after reaching verdict. Assessments shifted so as cohere their emerging A...
Three experiments examined transfer between two isomorphic subdomains of algebra and physics. The areas were arithmetic-progression problems in constant-acceleration High school college students who had learned one these subtopics presented with word that used either content from the domain they originally studied or based on unfamiliar but analogous domain. Students arithmetic progressions very likely to spontaneously recognize physics involving velocity distance can be addressed using same...