Neurocognitive mechanisms supporting analogical reasoning and its development

Prof Silvia Bunge, University of California, Berkeley

18th March 2021

Early Diversity in Abstract Thought: Context Shapes the Developmental Trajectory of Relational Reasoning

Dr Alex Carstensten, Stanford University

18th February 2021

Analogy Across Modality: Analogical Mapping Across Sensory and Information Modalities and Evidence for a General Analogical Reasoning Factor

Dr Adam Weinberger, Georgetown University

11th February 2021

One Instructional Sequence Fits all? A Conceptual Analysis of the Applicability of Concreteness Fading

Dr Tommi Kokkonen (University of Helsinki) & Prof Lennart Schalk (PH Schwyz)

11th February 2021

Cross Domain Generalisation in Humans and Machines

Dr Alex Doumas, The University of Edinburgh

4th February 2021

Analogy as a Catalyst for Cumulative Cultural Evolution

Dr Lotty Brand, University of Sheffield

28th January 2021

Using Context and Comparison to Constrain the Construction of New Descriptions During Open-Ended Induction

Prof Robert Goldstone, Indiana University Bloomington

21st January 2021

Space for Thinking: Spatial Reference Frames and Abstract Concepts

Dr Ariel Starr, University of Washington

10th December 2020

Preschoolers' Comprehension of Functional Metaphors

Rebecca Zhu, University of California Berkley

10th December 2020

Infant Relational Learning: Interactions With Visual and Linguistic Factors

Dr. Erin Anderson, Indiana University, Bloomington

3rd December 2020

Making Neural Nets Simple Enough to Succeed at Universal Relational Generalization

Prof. Kenneth J. Kurtz, Binghamton University

17th November 2020

Toward a Remedy for Inert Knowledge: Evaluating Different Facets of Category Status for Promoting Spontaneous Transfer

Sean Snoddy, Binghamton University

17th November 2020

The Structural Anchoring of Spontaneous Analogies

Lucas Raynal, Cergy-Pontoise University & Dr. Katarina Gvozdic, University of Geneva

12th November 2020

A Connectionist Account of Analogy-Making

Dr. Ivan Vankov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

5th November 2020

Analogies, Games and the Learning of Mathematics

Dr. Jairo Navarrete, O’Higgins University

22nd October 2020

Using Developmental Trajectories to Understand Change in Children’s Analogical Reasoning

Matthew Slocombe, Birkbeck, University of London

22nd October 2020

Priming, Pressure, and Learning by Analogy

Dr. Lindsey Richland, University of California, Irvine

15th October 2020

Abstraction and Analogy in Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute

8th October 2020

Abstract Semantic Relations in Mind, Brain, and Machines

Prof. Keith J. Holyoak, UCLA

1st October 2020

Is Rule Learning Like Analogy?

Dr. Stella Christie, Tsinghua University

16th July 2020

Analogical Reasoning and Executive Functions: A Life Span Approach

Prof. Jean-Pierre Thibaut, University of Burgundy

9th July 2020

Predicting Patterns of Similarity Among Abstract Semantic Relations

Nick Ichien, UCLA

9th July 2020

Analogy in Cognitive Architecture

Prof. Kenneth D. Forbus, Northwestern University

11th June 2020