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| Title: |
Re-representation in comparison: building an empirical case |
| Author: |
Kurtz, Kenneth J. |
| Appeared in: |
Journal of experimental & theoretical artificial intelligence |
| Paging: | Volume 17 (2005) nr. 4 pages 447-459 |
| Year: |
2005-12-01 |
| Contents: |
Leading accounts of analogy based on structure mapping theory (Gentner 1983, 1989) give an important explanatory role to re-representation. Structural alignment is insufficiently flexible to account for human analogical processing if semantically compatible, but non-identically coded, representational elements are not permitted to match. A process of re-representation can selectively allow non-identical representational elements to be considered matches and placed in structural correspondence during comparison. However, re-representation is only a posited theoretical construct with minimal supporting evidence. An experimental paradigm called inference probing is introduced which offers a new level of empirical support for the psychological reality of re-representation. Behavioural results are presented that bear on accounts of analogy, similarity, knowledge representation and reasoning. |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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