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    "pk": 25583,
    "title": "Animation Facilitates Source Understanding\nand Spontaneous Analogical Transfer",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Research on analogical problem solving has found that people\noften fail to spontaneously notice the relevance of a source\nanalog when solving a target problem, although they are able to\nform mappings and derive inferences when given a hint to recall\nthe source. To investigate the determinants of spontaneous\nanalogical transfer, the present study systematically compared\nthe effect of augmenting verbal descriptions of the source with\nanimations or static diagrams. Solution rates to Duncker’s radiation\nproblem were measured across varying source presentation\nconditions, and participants’ understanding of the relevant\nsource material was assessed. Supplemental animations\nincreased both comprehension of the source analog and spontaneous\ntransfer to the radiation problem. Supplemental diagrams\nyielded lesser improvement in participants’ understanding\nof source material and did not increase solution rates to the\ntarget problem. To investigate individual differences in spontaneous\ntransfer, fluid intelligence was measured for each participant\nusing an abridged version of the Raven’s Progressive\nMatrices (RPM) test. Animated source depictions were most\nbeneficial in facilitating spontaneous transfer for those participants\nwith low scores on the fluid intelligence measure.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Analogy; animation; multimedia learning; transfer;\nintelligence"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8hx4g6qg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "James",
            "middle_name": "R",
            "last_name": "Kubricht",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Hongjing",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Keith",
            "middle_name": "J.S.",
            "last_name": "Holyoak",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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