title: Motion as manipulation: implementation of force-motion analogies by event-file binding and action planning.
abstract: Tool-improvisation analogies are structure-mapping inferences implemented, in many species, by event-file binding and pre-motor action planning. These processes act on multi-modal representations of currently perceived situations and eventuate in motor acts that can be directly evaluated for success or failure; they employ implicit representations of force-motion relations encoded by the pre-motor system and do not depend on explicit, language-like representations of relational concepts. A detailed reconstruction of the analogical reasoning steps involved in Rutherford's and Bohr's development of the first quantized-orbit model of atomic structure is used to show that human force-motion analogies can in general be implemented by these mechanisms. This event-file manipulation model of the implementation of force-motion analogies is distinguished from the standard view that structure-mapping analogies require the manipulation of explicit, language-like representations of relational concepts.
authors.affiliation: Apdo. 363-4013, Atenas 20501, Costa Rica. fieldsres@gmail.com
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fields
mesh_terms: D003210:Concept Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009038:Motion; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000502:physiology*