Topic: knowledge representation

Existing accounts of analogical transfer highlight the importance of comparison-based schema abstraction in aiding retrieval of relevant prior knowledge from memory. In this talk, we discuss an alternative view, the category status hypothesis—which states that if knowledge of a target principle is represented as a relational category, it is easier to activate as a result of categorizing (as opposed to cue-based reminding)—and briefly review supporting evidence. We then further investigate this hypothesis by designing study tasks that promote different facets of category-level representations a