Language and the career of similarity.

By Dedre Gentner, Mary Jo Rattermann. 1991

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On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks (2020, background): “Indeed, young children initially reason primarily based on the perceptual similarity between objects and learn to pay attention to their relational similarity only at a later stage (i.e. after undergoing a “relational shift”; Gentner and Rattermann, 1991).”
Bootstrapping the Mind: Analogical Processes and Symbol Systems (2010, background): “Although humans are born with high relational ability, interaction with language is necessary to realize the full potential of our analogical capacity (Gentner, 2003; Gentner & Christie, 2008; Gentner & Rattermann, 1991).”
Analogical Reasoning in the Classroom: Insights from Cognitive Science. (2015, background): “…are in place at an early age, children’s reasoning is not adult-like until late adolescence, meaning that they will need additional support to notice and successfully use analogical thinking in learning contexts (e.g., Gentner & Ratterman, 1991; Halford, 1992; Richland, Morrison, & Holyoak, 2006).”
Why verbs are hard to learn (2006, background): “For example, Gentner and Rattermann (1991) gave children a relational mapping task in which the object matches conflicted with the best relational match.”
Comparison Facilitates Children's Learning of Names for Parts (2007, background): “Mintz and Gleitman (2002) found that 2- and 3-year-old children could more easily learn new property names if they modified a familiar basic-level category label (e.g., “That’s a drin car! And that’s a drin ball”). Children were given an opportunity to draw comparisons across items, but these compar”
Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, unknown): “Gentner and colleagues, for example, have shown that relational labels play an instrumental role in facilitating young human learners' sensitivity to relational similarities and potential analogies (Gentner & Rattermann 1991; Loewenstein & Gentner 2005).”
The Influence of Relational Knowledge and Executive Function on Preschoolers’ Repeating Pattern Knowledge (2016, background): “For instance, Gentner and Rattermann (1991) reviewed a wealth of research showing that children are capable of matching sequences of objects in terms of concrete, perceptual similarities before matching sequences of objects based on abstract, relational similarities.”
Teaching the Conceptual Structure of Mathematics (2012, background): “…prior knowledge is essential for reasoning by comparison, primarily because without awareness of the fundamental elements of a representation, one cannot hope to discern the important structural correspondences and draw inferences on that basis (e.g., Gentner & Rattermann, 1991; Goswami, 2002).”
The development of relational category knowledge (2005, background): “with both examples serving as bases as well as targets . familiar domains (Goswami & Brown, 1989 ; Gentner & Rattermann, 1991 ; �”