{"pk":27377,"title":"Promoting Spontaneous Analogical Transfer: The Role of Category Status","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Analogical comparison promotes spontaneous transfer by\nencouraging a more abstract representation that may be easier\nto retrieve. The category status hypothesis states that: if\nknowledge is represented as a relational category, it is easier\nto activate as a result of categorizing (as opposed to cue-based\nreminding). To investigate these two pathways to analogical\ntransfer, participants were assigned to different study\nconditions: 1) standard comparison of two analogs; 2)\nstandard comparison followed by a second comparison of two\nnew analogs; or 3) a guided category-building task based on\nsequential summarization. Category-building showed a\nreliably higher rate of spontaneous transfer during an\nanalogical problem solving task than standard comparison\n(numerically higher than double-comparison). Another\nexperiment measured spontaneous remindings to cues on the\nbasis of matching structure. Category-building showed a\nreliable advantage over both comparison conditions. This\nsupports categorization as a novel pathway to spontaneous\ntransfer by enhancing retrieval of structurally similar\ninformation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"concepts and categories; analogy; problem\nsolving; comparison; transfer"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35t5814n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sean","middle_name":"","last_name":"Snoddy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Binghamton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kenneth","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Kurtz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Binghamton University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27377/galley/17013/download/"}]}