Does Analogy Facilitate Transitive Inference in Young Children?
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Both transitive reasoning and analogy-making are present at very early stage of human development and the question arises whether the two developmental trajectories interact with each other. We are presenting an experiment with 4 years old children to test the hypothesis that the analogymaking capabilities can scaffold and facilitate the development of transitive inference and the empirical data support this hypothesis.
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