Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 31, Issue 04  

Open Peer Commentary

No way to start a space program: Associationism as a launch pad for analogical reasoning

Keith J. Holyoaka1 and John E. Hummela2

a1 Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563

a2 Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Champaign–Urbana, Champaign, IL 61820. holyoak@lifesci.ucla.edu http://reasoninglab.psych.ucla.edu/ jehummel@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/people/showprofile.php?id=543

Abstract

Humans, including preschool children, exhibit role-based relational reasoning, of which analogical reasoning is a canonical example. The “role-less” connectionist model proposed in the target article is only capable of conditional paired-associate learning.

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