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Peer reviewedHolyoak, Keith J.; Thagard, Paul – American Psychologist, 1997
The use of analogy in human thinking is examined from the perspective of a multiconstraint theory that postulates similarity, structure, and purpose as three kinds of constraints. The theory has been implemented in computational simulations of the analogical human mind using the Analogical Mapping by Constraint Satisfaction (ACME) model. (SLD)
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Theories, Mathematical Models
