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Analogy and the brain: A new perspective on relational primacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Usha Goswami
Usha Goswami
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Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Faculty of Education, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, United Kingdom. [email protected]://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/centres/neuroscience/
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Abstract

Leech et al.'s demonstration that analogical reasoning can be an emergent property of low-level incremental learning processes is critical for analogical theory. Along with insights into neural learning based on the salience of dynamic spatio-temporal structure, and the neural priming mechanism of repetition suppression, it establishes relational primacy as a plausible theoretical description of how brains make analogies.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 387 - 388
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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