A Computational Theory of Visual Analogical Transfer
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چکیده
Cognitive theories of analogical problem solving typically use representations of structural and causal content. But imagery and visual knowledge too can play an important role in analogy, problem solving, and cognition in general. This study presents Galatea, an operational computational model of analogical transfer that can solve Duncker’s “radiation problem” (1926) using only imagistic knowledge. The problem solutions are represented as sequences of images, represented with conceptual primitives, with transformations that operate on images. They form an imagistic transformation and representation language.
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