Trainee Group Meetings


Autumn 2021

Sep 07 - Matt Slocombe - Discussion of Mandler, J. M. (2010). The spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Language and cognition, 2(1), 21-44.

Sep 21 - Ella Stansbury - Children's novel noun generalisation: an eye tracking analysis.

Nov 02 - Yang Gao - The impact of parental talk on children's analogical reasoning

Nov 16 - Nick Ichien - Similarity and comparison in relational category learning

Nov 30 - Professor Nicholas Shea (Institute of Philosophy, University of London) - Discussion of Shea, N. (2021). Computations using analogies: what kind of structure is needed, and what kind of computational process takes place over them. Unpublished manuscript.

Dec 14 - tbc


Summer 2021

Jun 01 - Mercury Mason - Spatial alignment relational match to sample study

Jun 25 - Professor Iris van Rooij (School of Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University) - Discussion of van Rooij, I., & Baggio, G. (2021). Theory before the test: How to build high-verisimilitude explanatory theories in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(4), 682-697.

Jun 29 - Esteban Marquer - Formalizations of Analogy for Morphology and Semantics

Jul 13 - Kira Breithaupt - Persistent Common Structure as a Measure of Analogic Similarity

Aug 10 - (1) Rachel Heaton - Evidence for parallel processing of relational information in visual search; (2) Sean Snoddy - Exploring the similarity function

Spring 2021

Feb 26 - (1) Alex Carstensen - Measuring analogical reasoning cross-culturally; (2) Erin Anderson - Infant language development study

Mar 09 - Matt Slocombe - Discussion of Heyes, C. (2019). Précis of cognitive gadgets: The cultural evolution of thinking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42.

Mar 26 - Sean Snoddy - Category status and spontaneous transfer with analogies

Apr 06 - Nick Ichien - Analogy and comparison study design

Apr 23 - Matt Slocombe - Understanding magnetic forces via analogy

May 04 - Margarita Pavlova - Relational match to sample study design