Cognitive load and semantic analogies: Searching semantic space |
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| Authors: | Jean-Pierre Thibaut Robert French Milena Vezneva |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 106, Taiwan;(2) Neurobiology and Cognitive Science Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan;(3) Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA |
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| Abstract: | The aim of the present study is to investigate the performance of children of different ages on an analogymaking task involving
semantic analogies in which there are competing semantic matches. We suggest that this can best be studied in terms of developmental
changes in executive functioning. We hypothesize that the selection of common relational structure requires the inhibition
of other salient features, in particular semantically related matches. Our results show that children's performance in classic
A ∶ B ∶∶ C ∶ D analogy-making tasks seems to depend crucially on the nature of the distractors and the association strength
between both the A and B terms and the C and D terms. These results agree with an analogy-making account (Richland, Morrison,
& Holyoak, 2006) based on different limitations in executive functioning at different ages. |
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