Relational language and relational thought

By Dedre Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein. 2002

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Vygotskian Autotelic Artificial Intelligence: Language and Culture Internalization for Human-Like AI (2022, background): “Animal and preverbal infants demonstrate complex cognition, 75,76 but language does impact the way we perceive, 77,78 represent concepts, 41 conduct compositional and relational thinking, 38,68,79 etc.”
The Influence of Relational Knowledge and Executive Function on Preschoolers’ Repeating Pattern Knowledge (2016, background): “This process is referred to as the relational shift, which enables children to then focus on relational similarities between objects (e.g., similarity between a duck floating on water and a balloon floating in the air; Gentner & Loewenstein, 2002; Rattermann & Gentner, 1998).”
Block Talk: Spatial Language During Block Play (2011, background): “Gentner and colleagues (Gentner, 2003; Gentner & Loewenstein, 2002) suggest that spatial vocabulary may prove central for developing spatialrelational understanding; ‘‘. . .relational language fosters the development of representational structures that facilitate mental processing—that is, that…”
Comparison Facilitates Children's Learning of Names for Parts (2007, result): “Our findings here and in prior work suggest that structural alignment and mapping processes are integral to children’s learning of word meanings—that words act as “invitations to compare” (Gentner, 2003; Gentner & Loewenstein, 2002; Gentner & Namy, 1999).”
The development of relational category knowledge (2005, methodology): “A second limiting factor for projective matches, and indeed, this is the case (Gentner & Loewenstein, 2002 ; analogy, even among adults, is the frequent failure of analogical remind- Halford, 1987, 1993 ; Kotovsky & Gentner, 1996 ; Smith, 1983, 1989) . ings .”
Learning and Transfer: A General Role for Analogical Encoding (2003, background): “These kinds of findings lead us to speculate that analogical encoding across many examples may provide a means by which experiential learning yields broad conceptual change (Gentner & Loewenstein, 2002; Gentner & Medina, 1998).”
A theory of the discovery and predication of relational concepts. (2008, background): “Gentner and her colleagues (e.g., Gentner, 2003; Gentner & Namy, 1999; Gentner & Loewenstein, 2002; Gentner & Medina, 1998; Gentner & Ratterman, 1991; Loewenstein & Gentner, in press; Namy & Gentner, 2002) have argued that relational language plays a key role in relational learning, helping us to…”
Conceptual Metaphor Meets Conceptual Change (2009, methodology): “A number of other theoretical accounts are more directly relevant [Gentner, 2003; Gentner & Loewenstein, 2002; Nelson, 1996, 2002; Tomasello, 1999].”
A Transfer-in-Pieces Consideration of the Perception of Structure in the Transfer of Learning (2010, background): “Gentner and Loewenstein (2002) suggested that acquiring systems of relational terms can promote uniform relational encoding and thereby increase the likelihood of transfer, thus pointing toward their expectation that uniformity of representational encoding is central to transfer.”