Abstract
Is Analogical Reasoning just Another Measure of Executive Functioning?
Highlights
The present paper by Krawczyk et al (2010) adds to a growing list of studies that have shown analogical reasoning to be critically dependent on what is known as executive functioning in the neuropsychological literature, and working memory in the cognitivescience literature
Theories of the development of analogy in children have frequently focused on relational knowledge as a necessary precondition for analogy (Rattermann and Gentner, 1998; Goswami, 2001)
Morrison et al (2004) and Krawczyk et al (2008) and colleagues have previously found that patients with broad damage to anterior temporal lobe, an area associated with semantic knowledge, have difficulty with both verbal and visual analogies in spite of having preserved executive functions; the patterns of deficit are different than those of patients with damage to prefrontal cortex and their associated executive dysfunction
Summary
The present paper by Krawczyk et al (2010) adds to a growing list of studies that have shown analogical reasoning to be critically dependent on what is known as executive functioning in the neuropsychological literature, and working memory in the cognitive (neuro)science literature. Analogy is pervasive in everyday learning and discovery. It allows us to make sense of and make inferences about new situations and information with respect to things we already know and understand (Holyoak and Thagard, 1995; Dunbar and Blanchette, 2001).
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