Paul Thagard to speak on Analogical thinking

[Lorien Y. Pratt]

          COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY FALL COLLOQUIUM SERIES
		      (Rutgers University)
         

Date: 9 November 1988
Time: 4:30 PM
Place: Room 307, Psychology Building, Busch Campus


Paul Thagard, Cognitive Science Program, Princeton University


                      ANALOGICAL THINKING
 
Analogy is currently a very active area of research in both cognitive
psychology  and artificial  intelligence.  Keith  Holyoak and  I have
developed connectionist  models of  analogical retrieval  and mapping
that  are consistent  with the  results of  psychological experiments.
The  new models  use localist  networks to  simultaneously  satisfy a
set  of  semantic,  structural,  and  pragmatic  constraints.   After
providing  a  general  view  of  analogical  thinking, this talk will
describe our model of analog retrieval.