title: Does the PFC model of analogy account for decision making, problem solving, reasoning, flexibility, adaptability, and even creativity?
abstract: Abstract From everyday cognition to scientific discovery, analogical processes play an important role: bringing connection, integration, and interrelation of information. Recently, a PFC model of analogy has been proposed to explain many cognitive processes and integrate general functional properties of PFC. We argue here that analogical processes do not suffice to explain the cognitive processes and functions of PFC. Moreover the model does not satisfactorily integrate specific explanatory mechanisms required for the different processes involved. Its relevance would be improved if fewer cognitive phenomena were considered and more specific predictions and explanations about those processes were stated.
authors.affiliation: a Italian Hospital University , Buenos Aires , Argentina.
authors.forename: Joaquin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barutta
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guex
authors.forename: Agustín
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ibáñez