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Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science
over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and
problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case
can be made for analogical processing as the very core of
cognition. This is the first book to span the full range of
disciplines concerned with analogy. Its contributors represent
cognitive, developmental, and comparative psychology; neuroscience;
artificial intelligence; linguistics; and philosophy.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part describes
computational models of analogy as well as their relation to
computational models of other cognitive processes. The second part
addresses the role of analogy in a wide range of cognitive tasks, such
as forming complex cognitive structures, conveying emotion, making
decisions, and solving problems. The third part looks at the
development of analogy in children and the possible use of analogy in
nonhuman primates.
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