{"pk":29361,"title":"Analogical Transfer and Recognition Memory in Relational Classification Learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"People spontaneously make connections between superficially\ndistinct domains through relational similarity, but this\nspontaneous transfer has yet to be demonstrated across distinct\nclassification tasks. A related issue is that the acquisition of a\ncategory may affect recognition memory for category-\nconsistent items. Participants in the Category Learning\ncondition completed an initial classification task. The Category\nLearning and Baseline conditions each received category-\nconsistent items to study followed by a recognition test. Both\ngroups completed a final classification task in a novel domain\nabiding by the same underlying category structures as the\ninitial classification task. The Category Learning group\nshowed 1) increased false alarms during the recognition test\nand 2) higher accuracy in the final classification task (when\ntold the classification phases were unrelated). This suggests\nthat classification learning led to a schematization of the\ncategory-defining concept (evidenced by increased false\nalarms), which supported spontaneous transfer of relational\nconcepts across distinct classification tasks.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"analogical transfer; relational categories;\nclassification; recognition memory"}],"section":"Human Learning","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94z9c8r1","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":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29361/galley/19222/download/"}]}