Similarity and Analogical Reasoning

Features of similarity.

1977 • 7,149 citations

Structure‐Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy*

1983 • 4,866 citations

SCRIPTS, PLANS, GOALS, AND UNDERSTANDING

1988 • 4,629 citations

Plans and the Structure of Behavior

1960 • 3,598 citations

Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures

1979 • 3,073 citations

Context theory of classification learning.

1978 • 2,917 citations

Schema induction and analogical transfer

1983 • 2,853 citations

The role of theories in conceptual coherence.

1985 • 2,658 citations

Analogical problem solving

1980 • 2,500 citations

Expert and Novice Performance in Solving Physics Problems

1980 • 2,075 citations

Explorations in Cognition

1975 • 1,309 citations

Plans And The Structure Of Behavior

1960 • 975 citations

Flowing Waters or Teeming Crowds: Mental Models of Electricity

2014 • 677 citations

Analogical transfer, problem similarity, and expertise.

1988 • 668 citations

Beyond literal similarity.

1979 • 636 citations

Metaphor as Structure Mapping: The Relational Shift

1988 • 600 citations

Learning and reasoning by analogy

1980 • 525 citations

Systematicity and surface similarity in the development of analogy

1986 • 521 citations

Component processes in analogical reasoning.

1977 • 478 citations

Nonanalytic Cognition: Memory, Perception, and Concept Learning

1984 • 431 citations

Remindings and their effects in learning a cognitive skill

1984 • 405 citations

The role of analogy in transfer between similar problem states

1974 • 403 citations

The Pragmatics of Analogical Transfer

1985 • 366 citations

Induction and Analogy in Mathematics

1954 • 365 citations

Developmental trends in free classification: Evidence for a new conceptualization of perceptual development

1977 • 282 citations

Are Scientific Analogies Metaphors

1981 • 253 citations

Aptness in metaphor

1981 • 230 citations

A characteristic-to-defining shift in the development of word meaning

1984 • 218 citations

Development of Analogical Problem-Solving Skill

1984 • 212 citations

A structure-mapping model for word problems.

1987 • 208 citations

Metaphoric comprehension: Studies in reminding and resembling

1977 • 193 citations

The information processing approach to cognition

1984 • 176 citations

The effects of category generalizations and instance similarity on schema abstraction.

1981 • 174 citations

Learning new principles from precedents and exercises

1982 • 161 citations

Children's metaphoric productions and preferences

1975 • 121 citations

Children's Performance on a Spatial Analogies Task

1977 • 109 citations

Analogical Transfer in Very Young Children: Combining Two Separately Learned Solutions to Reach a Goal

1986 • 106 citations

Learning Physical Domains: Toward a Theoretical Framework.

1986 • 103 citations

The hearsay speech understanding system: an example of the recognition process

1973 • 99 citations

The Structure of Analogical Models in Science.

1980 • 93 citations

Some Issues in the Measurement of Children's Comprehension of Metaphorical Language

1980 • 81 citations

Planning Nets: A Representation for Formalizing Analogies and Semantic Models of Procedural Skills.

1978 • 78 citations

If a tree had a knee, where would it be? Children's performance on simple spatial metaphors

1977 • 74 citations

Analogical Inference and Analogical Access.

1987 • 69 citations

Analogy — From a Unified Perspective

1988 • 66 citations

Historical shifts in the use of analogy in science

1989 • 65 citations

Constrained Semantic Transference: A formal theory of metaphors

1986 • 62 citations

The Developmental Importance of Motion Information in Perceiving and Describing Metaphoric Similarity

1984 • 39 citations

Relationships between similarity-based and explanation-based categorisation

1988 • 31 citations

Analogical processing: a simulation and empirical corroboration

1987 • 26 citations

Metaphor as structure-mapping : what develops

1984 • 24 citations

Scientific Theory Formation Through Analogical Inference

1987 • 20 citations

Processes in verbal analogy solution.

1980 • 18 citations

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: A Theory and its Computer Implementation

1987 • 15 citations

Testing the metaphoric competence of the young child : paraphrase versus enactment

1984 • 14 citations

Causality, Structure, and Common Sense

1987 • 9 citations