The concept of similarity, or a sense of 'sameness' among things, is pivotal to theories in the
cognitive sciences and beyond. Similarity, however, is a difficult thing to measure …

This article reviews the status of similarity as an explanatory construct with a focus on
similarity judgments. For similarity to be a useful construct, one must be able to specify the …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state's
water shortage problem was to dam up the San Francisco Bay. Against massive political …

Many experimental research designs require images of novel objects. Here we introduce the
Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database. This database contains 64 primary …

Analogy and similarity are often assumed to be distinct psychological processes. In contrast
to this position, the authors suggest that both similarity and analogy involve a process of …

11 ANALOGICAL REASONING Page 1 186 Author note This research was supported by a
grant to the senior author from the Office of Naval Research; award number N00014-16-1-2613 …

This text presents state-of-the-art methods for developing concepts appropriate for nursing. It
offers a wide array of approaches to concept development, ranging from the classic to the …

This paper describes the structure-mapping engine (SME), a program for studying
analogical processing. SME has been built to explore Gentner's structure-mapping theory of …

Dynamic systems is a recent theoretical approach to the study of development. In its
contemporary formulation, the theory grows directly from advances in understanding …