The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Analogy is a powerful tool for fostering conceptual understanding and transfer in STEM and
other fields. Well‐constructed analogical comparisons focus attention on the causal …

This chapter provides a brief overview of analogical reasoning, first in the typically
develo** population and then in the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) population. Many …

The processes involved in analogical transfer are not unlike those involved in insight
problem solving in that they involve a difficult problem that needs to be restructured or seen …

The nature of the mental processes involved in metaphor comprehension has been the
focus of debate, with controversy focusing on the relative role of general analogical …

We report a study examining the role of linguistic context in modulating the influences of
individual differences in fluid and crystalized intelligence on comprehension of literary …

Although models of word meanings based on distributional semantics have proved effective
in predicting human judgments of similarity among individual concepts, it is less clear …

What are the boundaries that limit expansion of semantic knowledge across development?
One striking contender is the necessity of a prompt to integrate and self-generate new …

Various forms of relational processing have been linked to cognitive capacity measures,
such as working memory and fluid intelligence. However, previous work has not established …

Given the widespread belief that analogical processing is an important mechanism for
creative problem solving, despite the rarity of spontaneous transfer in laboratory studies, a …