TY - JOUR
T1 - Does the PFC model of analogy account for decision making, problem solving, reasoning, flexibility, adaptability, and even creativity?
AU - Barutta, Joaquín
AU - Guex, Raphael
AU - Ibáñez, Agustín
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This work was supported by NIMH grant R21MH083029 and NIDCD grant R01DC009209 to Sharon L. Thompson-Schill.
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Supported by the National Institutes of Health (NS065046).
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Correspondence should be addressed to: Ann Speed, Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800 MS1011, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1011, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Thanks very much to Jim Kroger, Keith Holyoak, Christy Warrender, and an anonymous reviewer for comments on an earlier draft of this paper, and to Jim for many, many helpful conversations. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. This work was funded wholly by Sandia National Laboratories’ Lab Directed Research and Development program, an internal funding source.
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Supported by the CONICET career grant to Agustin lbáñez.
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This manuscript has been authored by Sandia Corporation under Contract number DE-AC04-94AL85000 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains (and the publisher by accepting the article for publication acknowledges that the United States Government retains) a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of the manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. www.psypress.com/cognitiveneuroscience DOI: 10.1080/17588921003660728 for accomplishing analogy (Bunge, Wendelken, Badre, & Wagner, 2005; Christoff et al., 2001b; Geake & Hansen, 2005; Green, Fusgelsang, Kraemer, Shamosh, & Dunbar, 2006; Kroger et al., 2002; Luo et al., 2003; Mikkelsen, et al., 2010; Prabhakaran, Smith, Desond, Glover, & Gabrieli, 1997; Qiu, Li, Chen, & Zhang, 2008; Wharton et al., 2000). However, exactly how this network achieves analogical reasoning is still in question.
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Supported by an ESRC studentship to the first author (EF/H016902/1).
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - From everyday cognition to scientific discovery, analogical processes play an important role: bringing connection, integration, and interrelation of information. Recently, a PFC model of analogy has been proposed to explain many cognitive processes and integrate general functional properties of PFC. We argue here that analogical processes do not suffice to explain the cognitive processes and functions of PFC. Moreover the model does not satisfactorily integrate specific explanatory mechanisms required for the different processes involved. Its relevance would be improved if fewer cognitive phenomena were considered and more specific predictions and explanations about those processes were stated.
AB - From everyday cognition to scientific discovery, analogical processes play an important role: bringing connection, integration, and interrelation of information. Recently, a PFC model of analogy has been proposed to explain many cognitive processes and integrate general functional properties of PFC. We argue here that analogical processes do not suffice to explain the cognitive processes and functions of PFC. Moreover the model does not satisfactorily integrate specific explanatory mechanisms required for the different processes involved. Its relevance would be improved if fewer cognitive phenomena were considered and more specific predictions and explanations about those processes were stated.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79960999568
U2 - 10.1080/17588921003786580
DO - 10.1080/17588921003786580
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:79960999568
SN - 1758-8928
VL - 1
SP - 142
EP - 143
JO - Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Cognitive Neuroscience
IS - 2
ER -