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    "pk": 29861,
    "title": "Simulating Infant Visual Learning by Comparison: An Initial Model",
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    "abstract": "Researchers have recently found that 3-month-old infants are\ncapable of using analogical abstraction to learn the same or\ndifferent relation, given the right conditions (Anderson et al.\n2018). Surprisingly, seeing fewer distinct examples led to\nmore successful learning than seeing more distinct examples.\nThis runs contrary to the prediction of standard learning\ntheories, which hold that a wider range of examples leads to\nbetter generalization and transfer, but is compatible with other\nfindings in infant research (Casasola 2005; Maguire et al.\n2008). Anderson et al. (2018) propose that this is due to\ninteractions between encoding and analogical learning. This\npaper explores that proposal through the lens of cognitive\nsimulation, using automatically encoded visual stimuli and a\ncognitive model of analogical learning. The simulation results\nare compatible with the original findings, thereby providing\nevidence for this explanation. The assumptions underlying the\nsimulation are delineated and some alternatives are discussed.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "analogy"
        },
        {
            "word": "relational learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cognitive\nSimulation"
        },
        {
            "word": "infant cognition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 2",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dx7j1s5",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kezhen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Kenneth",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Forbus",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dedre",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gentner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Susan",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Hespos",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Erin",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Anderson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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