Author: Casale, Michael B.; Roeder, Jessica L.; Ashby, F. Gregory
Description: Analogical transfer is the ability to transfer knowledge despite significant changes in the surface features of a problem. In categorization, analogical transfer occurs if a classification strategy learned with one set of stimuli can be transferred to a set of novel, perceptually distinct stimuli. Three experiments investigated analogical transfer in rule-based and information-integration categorization tasks. In rule-based tasks, the optimal strategy is easy to describe verbally, whereas in information-integration tasks, accuracy is maximized only if information from two or more stimulus dimensions is integrated in a way that is difficult or impossible to describe verbally. In all three experiments, analogical transfer was nearly perfect in the rule-based conditions, but no evidence for analogical transfer was found in the information-integration conditions. These results were predicted a priori by the COVIS theory of categorization.
Subject headings: Association Learning; Contrast Sensitivity; Discrimination Learning; Humans; Orientation; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Probability Learning; Problem Solving; Size Perception; Transfer; Psychology
Publication year: 2012
Journal or book title: Memory & Cognition
Volume: 40
Issue: 3
Pages: 434-449
Find the full text: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-011-0154-4
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