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Implicit analogy: New direct evidence and a challenge to the theory of memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Anthony J. Greene
Anthony J. Greene
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53223. [email protected]://www.uwm.edu/~ag
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Abstract

The authors propose that analogical reasoning may be achieved without conscious or explicit deliberation. The argument would be strengthened by more convincingly demonstrating instances of analogy that do not require explicit deliberation. Recent findings demonstrate that deliberative or explicit strategies are not necessary for flexible expression under novel circumstances (Greene et al. 2001) to include analogical transfer (Gross & Greene 2007). This issue is particularly critical because the existence of relational priming poses a serious challenge to the widely held notion that flexible expression of learned relations requires deliberative processes.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 388
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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