A connectionist account of the relational shift and context sensitivity in the development of generalisation

Similarity-based generalisation is fundamental to human cognition, and the ability to draw analogies based on relational similarities between superficially different domains is crucial for reasoning and inference. Learning to base generalisation on shared relations rather than (or in the face of) sh...

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Main Authors: Paul H. Thibodeau, Aviva Blonder, Stephen J. Flusberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-10-01
Series:Connection Science
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2020.1728519