Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

Both cognitive and educational psychology literature strive to investigate human category
and concept learning. However, both literatures focus on different phenomena and often use …

Learning categories defined by the relations among objects supports the transfer of
knowledge from initial learning contexts to novel contexts that share few surface similarities …

The ability to form relational categories for objects that share few features in common is a
hallmark of human cognition. For example, anything that can play a preventative role, from a …

Historically, accounts of object representation and perceived similarity have focused on
intrinsic features. Although more recent accounts have explored how objects, scenes, and …

What mechanisms underlie children's language production? Structural priming—the
repetition of sentence structure across utterances—is an important measure of the …

Relational structure is important for various cognitive tasks, such as analogical transfer, but
its role in learning of new relational concepts is poorly understood. This article reports two …

Humans and animals are able to generalize or transfer information from previous
experience so that they can behave appropriately in novel situations. What mechanisms …

Across many areas of study in cognition, the capacity of working memory (WM) is widely
agreed to be roughly three to five items: three to five objects (ie, bound collections of object …

We agree with Penn et al. that our human cognitive superiority derives from our exceptional
relational ability. We far exceed other species in our ability to grasp analogies and to …