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    "pk": 27020,
    "title": "More than meets the eye:\nEarly relational reasoning cannot be reduced to perceptual heuristics",
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    "abstract": "The ability to represent same-different relations is a condition for\nabstract thought. However, there is mixed evidence for when this\nability develops, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.\nApparent success in relational reasoning may be evidence for\nconceptual understanding or may be due to low-level, perceptual\nstrategies. We introduce a method to discriminate these possibilities\nby pitting two conditions that are perceptually matched but\nconceptually different: in a “fused” condition, same and different\nobjects are joined, creating single objects that have the same\nperceptual features as the pairs in the “relational” condition.\nHowever, the “fused” objects do not provide evidence for the\nrelation. Using this method in a causal task provides evidence for\ngenuine conceptual understanding. This novel technique offers a\nsimple manipulation that may be applied to a variety of existing\nmatch-to-sample procedures used to assess same-different reasoning\nto include in future research with non-human animals, as well as\nhuman infants.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "cognitive development; causal inference; relational\nreasoning; perceptual processes"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wr0285g",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Caren",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Walker",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Alison",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gopnik",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}