{"pk":33013,"title":"Analogical Transfer Through Comprehension and Priming","subtitle":null,"abstract":"An unexplored means by which analogical transfer might take place is through indirect priming through the interaction of text comprehension and memory retrieval processes. Remind is a structured spreading-activation model of language understanding and reminding in which simple transfer can result from indirect priming from previously processed source analogs. This paper describes two experiments based on Remind's priming-based transfer framework. In Experiment 1, subjects (1) summarized analogous source stories' common plot; (2) rated the comprehensibility of targets related to sources by similar themes, contexts, or themes and contexts; then (3) described any sources incidentally recalled during target rating. Source/target similarity influenced comprehensibility and reminding without any explicit mapping or problem-solving. In Experiment 2, subjects (1) rated each story's comprehensibility in source/target pairs having similar relationships to each other as in Experiment 1; then (2) rated source/target similarity. Analogous targets were rated as more comprehensible than non-analogous targets. Both experiments imply that transfer can be caused by activation of abstract knowledge representations without explicit mapping.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Refereed Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jj9q274","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Charles","middle_name":"M .","last_name":"Wharton","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Trent","middle_name":"E .","last_name":"Lange","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1994-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33013/galley/24074/download/"}]}