In my view, one of the most vexing of all types of questions used on IQ tests is the one that asks us to complete an analogical formula such as the following one: Bird is to flying as human is to... I ...

Analogical reasoning, the process of identifying correspondences between seemingly disparate domains, is fundamental to human cognition. It facilitates problem solving and learning by allowing ...

Analogical reasoning projects a property taken to hold of something or things (the source) to something else (the target) on the basis of just those similarities premised in the analogy. Standard ...

This note concerns the creative potential of tropes in the process of analogical reasoning. We first suggest that metaphors (including metonymy and synecdoche) operate within the "cognitive comfort ...

"Analogical reasoning, matching relations to relations, has been considered to be among the more so-called 'higher order' abstract reasoning processes," he says. "For decades such reasoning has been ...

Adam Marsland at Pinsent Masons Vario explains the power of analogical thinking, and how it can help decision-makers think more creatively and efficiently Problem solving is a diverse topic, with a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Brandon Valeriano is the Donald Bren Chair at the Marine Corps University and a ...

Large language models are a class of AI algorithm that relies on a high number computational nodes and an equally large number of connections among them. They can be trained to perform a variety of ...