Relational reasoning and its manifestations in the educational context: A systematic review of the literature

D Dumas, PA Alexander, EM Grossnickle - Educational Psychology …, 2013 - Springer
Relational reasoning, the ability to discern meaningful patterns within otherwise
unconnected information, is regarded as central to human learning and cognition and as …

Working memory predicts children's analogical reasoning

NK Simms, RR Frausel, LE Richland - Journal of experimental child …, 2018 - Elsevier
Analogical reasoning is the cognitive skill of drawing relationships between representations,
often between prior knowledge and new representations, that allows for bootstrapping …

Analogical reasoning, control and executive functions: A developmental investigation with eye-tracking

JP Thibaut, RM French - Cognitive Development, 2016 - Elsevier
We use eye-tracking to study the development of analogical reasoning in 5-year-olds, 8-year-
olds, adolescents and adults in the A: B: C: D paradigm. We observed significant differences …

Reasoning by analogy requires the left frontal pole: lesion-deficit mapping and clinical implications

M Urbanski, ML Bréchemier, B Garcin, D Bendetowicz… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract See Burgess (doi: 10.1093/brain/aww092) for a scientific commentary on this
article. Analogical reasoning is at the core of the generalization and abstraction processes …

The synchrony effect revisited: chronotype, time of day and cognitive performance in a semantic analogy task

K Nowack, E Van Der Meer - Chronobiology international, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The synchrony effect (ie superior performance at optimal, inferior performance at suboptimal
times of day) has been broadly studied within the context of circadian rhythms. Whether one …

Gamelike features might not improve data

GE Hawkins, B Rae, KV Nesbitt, SD Brown - Behavior research methods, 2013 - Springer
Many psychological experiments require participants to complete lots of trials in a
monotonous task, which often induces boredom. An increasingly popular approach to …

Convergent and divergent thinking in verbal analogy

LL Jones, Z Estes - Thinking & Reasoning, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Individual differences in convergent and divergent thinking may uniquely explain variation in
analogical reasoning ability. Across two studies we investigated the relative influences of …

[HTML][HTML] Generalizing solutions across functionally similar problems correlates with world knowledge and working memory in 2.5-to 4.5-year-olds

K Bobrowicz, J Sahlström, K Thorstensson, B Nagy… - Cognitive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Analogical transfer, denoting the ability to use an action that solved a given problem in order
to successfully handle a seemingly different but functionally similar problem, requires well …

Generating relations elicits a relational mindset in children

NK Simms, LE Richland - Cognitive Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Relational reasoning is a hallmark of human higher cognition and creativity, yet it is
notoriously difficult to encourage in abstract tasks, even in adults. Generally, young children …

Morphometry of left frontal and temporal poles predicts analogical reasoning abilities

C Aichelburg, M Urbanski… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Analogical reasoning is critical for making inferences and adapting to novelty. It can be
studied experimentally using tasks that require creating similarities between situations or …