Analogical projection in pattern perception

An Algebraic Approach to Modeling Analogical Projection in Pattern Perception

In this paper we propose an algebraic method for solving proportional analogy problems involving sequential patterns. In this approach, sequential patterns are considered as elements of an algebra. The gestalt that is assigned to a pattern is represented by the term of the algebra that denotes it. Most patterns are ambiguous: there are diierent terms that correspond to a pattern, representing d...

Using Gestalt Principles to Compute Analogies of Geometric Figures

Analogy making is a highly sophisticated cognitive process in which two stimuli are compared and analyzed for common patterns. Analogical reasoning is the adaptation of knowledge about one stimulus such that it can be applied to the second stimulus and new analogous inferences can be drawn. Analogy making requires intelligence, since such analogous patterns and transfers often are not obvious a...

Discovering Pattern Structures: Interaction between Analogical Reasoning and Perception (Extended Abstract)

Explaining Effective Learning by Analogical Reasoning

Machine learning algorithms are usually considered as explicit learning strategies requiring large data samples. Contrary to these accounts, cognitive learning seems to be based on significantly less amounts of training data and occurs often in the form of implicit learning. In order to close this gap we propose to explain these discrepancies by a form of analogical learning, bridging these two...

Analogical Reasoning, Defeasible Reasoning, and the Reference Class

This paper attempts four things. It demonstrates the possibility of accounting for Russell-style and Clark-style analogical reasoning in an existing framework for statistical reasoning. It critically reviews the proposals made by Clark for defeasible analogical reasoning and shows how they can be understood better simply as defeasible reasoning. It argues that generalization from the single cas...