{"pk":26747,"title":"An Analogical Model of Pretense","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Pretense has been implicated as playing a role in the development of many cognitive and social skills. Despite theimportance and ubiquity of this phenomena, few computational models of pretense exist. We propose a model of pretense viaanalogical abduction. We suggest that pretense occurs via structural alignment. Where a mismatch occurs (i.e. something inthe pretend scenario is not the same as its aligned match in an equivalent real-world scenario), a re-representation must takeplace in order for pretense to continue. For example, a seashell may be re-represented as a cup (as in Fein, 1975) or an emptycup may be re-represented as full (as in Onishi et al., 2007). We show that this model can explain results from two empiricalstudies, including failures in pretense.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bg1n2x5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Irina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rabkina","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Ken","middle_name":"","last_name":"Forbus","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26747/galley/16383/download/"}]}