Journal article
D. Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein, Leigh Thompson, Kenneth D. Forbus
Cognitive Sciences, 2009
Cognitive Sciences, 2009
Semantic Scholar
DBLP
DOI
PubMed
Cite
Cite
APA
Click to copy
Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., Thompson, L., & Forbus, K. D. (2009). Reviving Inert Knowledge: Analogical Abstraction Supports Relational Retrieval of Past Events. Cognitive Sciences.
Chicago/Turabian
Click to copy
Gentner, D., Jeffrey Loewenstein, Leigh Thompson, and Kenneth D. Forbus. “Reviving Inert Knowledge: Analogical Abstraction Supports Relational Retrieval of Past Events.” Cognitive Sciences (2009).
MLA
Click to copy
Gentner, D., et al. “Reviving Inert Knowledge: Analogical Abstraction Supports Relational Retrieval of Past Events.” Cognitive Sciences, 2009.
BibTeX Click to copy
@article{d2009a,
title = {Reviving Inert Knowledge: Analogical Abstraction Supports Relational Retrieval of Past Events},
year = {2009},
journal = {Cognitive Sciences},
author = {Gentner, D. and Loewenstein, Jeffrey and Thompson, Leigh and Forbus, Kenneth D.}
}
Abstract
We present five experiments and simulation studies to establish late analogical abstraction as a new psychological phenomenon: Schema abstraction from analogical examples can revive otherwise inert knowledge. We find that comparing two analogous examples of negotiations at recall time promotes retrieving analogical matches stored in memory-a notoriously elusive effect. Another innovation in this research is that we show parallel effects for real-life autobiographical memory (Experiments 1-3) and for a controlled memory set (Experiments 4 and 5). Simulation studies show that a unified model based on schema abstraction can capture backward (retrieval) effects as well as forward (transfer) effects.
