Nonintentional analogical inference in text comprehension

Nonintentional analogical inference in text comprehension.

We present findings suggesting that analogical inference processes can play a role in fluent comprehension and interpretation. Participants were found to use information from a prior relationally similar example in understanding the content of a later example, but they reported that they were not aware of having done so. These inference processes were sensitive to structural mappings between th...

Analogical Representation and Graph Comprehension

In this paper we argue that people construct analogical representations of the information that they extract from simple graphs and that these representations are subject to the same nomic constraints as the original graphical representations. We briefly review behavioural and neuropsychological findings across a range of tasks related to graph comprehension, which suggest that people spontaneo...

Constraints on Analogical Inference

The ability to reason by analogy is particularly important because it permits the extension of knowledge of a target domain by virtue of its similarity to a base domain via a process of analogical inference. The general procedure for ana-logical inference involves copying structure from the base to the target in which missing information is generated, and substitutions are made for items for wh...

Analogical Inference in Automatic Interpretation

We present findings suggesting that analogical inference can play a role in the fundamental processes involved in automatic comprehension and interpretation. Participants were found to use information from a prior relationally similar example in understanding the content of a currently encoded example. Further, in doing so they were sensitive to structural mappings between the two instances, ru...

The text mapping and inference rule generation problems in text comprehension: Evaluating a memory-based account