Comparison
Comparison
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-03129-8_7
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
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通讯作者:
Son, Ji Y.
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作者:
Goldstone, Robert L.;Day, Sam;Son, Ji Y.
The process of comparison plays a critical role in problem solving, judgment, decision making, categorization, and cognition, broadly construed. In turn, determination of similarities and differences plays a critical role for comparison. In this chapter, we describe important classes of formal models of similarity and comparison: geometric, featural, alignment-based, and transformational. We also consider the question of whether similarity is too flexible to provide a stable ground for cognition, and conversely, whether it is insufficiently flexible to account for the sophistication of cognition. Both similarity assessments and comparison are argued to provide valuable general-purpose cognitive strategies.