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Relational priming is to analogy-making as one-ball juggling is to seven-ball juggling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Robert M. French
Robert M. French
Affiliation:
LEAD-CNRS UMR 5022, University of Burgundy, 21065 Dijon, Cedex, [email protected]://www.u-bourgogne.fr/lead/people/rfrench.html
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Abstract

Relational priming is argued to be a deeply inadequate model of analogy-making because of its intrinsic inability to do analogies where the base and target domains share no common attributes and the mapped relations are different. Leech et al. rely on carefully handcrafted representations to allow their model to make a complex analogy, seemingly unaware of the debate on this issue fifteen years ago. Finally, they incorrectly assume the existence of fixed, context-independent relations between objects.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 386 - 387
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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