MAC/FAC: A Model of Similarity-Based Retrieval.

Forbus, K. D., Gentner, D., & Law, K. (1995). MAC/FAC: A Model of Similarity-Based Retrieval. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 504-509.

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1995

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https://doi.org/10.1016/0364-0213(95)90016-0matched

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cognitive_science

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• Analogy
  • The signature is the combination of (a) relational role-alignment—elements of the source are matched to elements of the target based on their functional roles in the respective domains, not their superficial properties; (b) selective preservation of higher-order structure—causal chains, dependencies, and functional relationships transfer, while concrete attributes (color, material, scale) do not; © inferential transfer to the target—inferences drawn in the source about relational dependencies become conjectures about the target; (d) the surface-vs-structural-similarity distinction—a principled rejection of shallow feature-matching in favor of deep relational correspondence; (e) the systematicity principle—analogies are stronger when the source's relational structure is interconnected and forms a coherent system, and when multiple independent relations all support the same target mapping (convergence is cognitively powerful); (f) the analogical retrieval process—the cognitive or computational mechanism that selects the source domain in the first place, which depends on structural similarity cues and prior experience.

    This sourceRetrieval model distinguishing surface-matching (MAC) from deep similarity (FAC) in analogical access.

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