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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Analogical mapping emphasizes shared relations between situations.
  • This process may lead to overlooking non-fitting information.
  • Understanding how analogical mapping affects memory representation is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if analogical mapping alters recognition memory for source analog features.
  • To examine the impact of relational schema on memory recall.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments used 4-term proportional analogies (A:B::C:D) with cartoon figures.
  • Participants encoded a source analog (A:B) before relevance was specified.
  • Recognition memory for A:B was tested after analogical decisions on C:D.

Main Results:

  • Memory was reduced for lures with feature changes on initially inconsistent dimensions.
  • This memory decrement was observed when the change improved overall relational coherence.
  • Findings suggest analogical reasoning modifies memory representations.

Conclusions:

  • Analogical reasoning can alter memory representations of source analogs.
  • Subsequent recognition is influenced by the established relational schema.
  • Cognitive processes in analogical mapping impact memory recall and feature representation.