The structure-mapping engine: algorithm and examples
Artificial Intelligence
The mechanisms of analogical learning
Similarity and analogical reasoning
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Past research on analogies has tended to focus on analogies generated by a textbook, teacher, or researcher that are then interpreted by a student. Such research identifies how students learn from analogies---but not how students create or use their own analogies. Models of analogy comprehension that have been derived from this research, in particular structure-mapping, cannot be extended to analogy creation. However, features of student-generated analogies show striking similarities to features of categorization, including prototypes, family-resemblance, and a folk-theory basis. In this paper, I present a thread of analogies from a 5th grade science classroom and argue for a view of analogies as a categorization phenomenon.