Why learning and development can lead to poorer recognition memory.
Current models of inductive reasoning in children and adults assume a central role for categorical knowledge. A recent paper by Sloutsky and Fisher challenges this assumption, showing that children are more likely than adults to rely on perceptual similarity as a basis for induction, and introduces a more direct method for examining the representations activated during induction. This method has the potential to constrain models of induction in novel ways, although there are still important challenges.
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Brett K
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School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, N.S.W. 2052, Australia. B.Hayes@unsw.edu.au <B.Hayes@unsw.edu.au>
Heit
Evan
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