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    "pk": 29486,
    "title": "Object Bias Disrupts Rule-Based Generalization in Adults Across Domains",
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    "abstract": "Humans are remarkably adept at abstract rule learning, but\nlittle is known about when learners apply this knowledge. We\ninvestigated a fundamental constraint in rule generalization:\nattention to featural similarity (object bias). Across two\nexperiments in different domains, we asked whether adults’\nabstract rule generalization is constrained by superficial\nmatches to the concrete exemplars present during learning, as\nis known to be the case for analogical reasoning (Gentner &\nToupin, 1986). In the present studies, participants were\nexposed to a series of sequences following a simple rule and\nwere asked to generalize to novel instances of either the same\nrule or a new rule. In one condition, an individual element\npresent during initial learning was inserted into the new,\nunfamiliar pattern. Results showed that adults often chose this\nobject match over the rule match, suggesting that abstract rule\ngeneralization, like analogical reasoning, is impacted by\nconcrete features of the input.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "abstract rule learning; generalization; analogy;\nlearning bias; object match"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Biases",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04z70948",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Evan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Orticio",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Swarthmore College",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Stella",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Christie",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tsinghua University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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