Commonalities and Differences in Similarity Comparisons¶
Markman, A. B., & Gentner, D. (1996). Commonalities and Differences in Similarity Comparisons. Memory & Cognition, 24(2), 235-249.
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- Comparison
- Contrast is comparison whose dimension selection and output relation are oriented toward difference: the operation runs, but the analyst foregrounds the gap rather than the overlap, a foregrounding that Markman and Gentner (1996) show empirically as the alignable-difference reading produced by the same structural-alignment machinery that yields commonalities.
This sourceShows that difference judgments (alignable differences / contrast) are produced by the same structural-alignment process that yields commonalities, and that side-by-side placement prompts the viewer to construct an alignment — supports the operation/reading distinction and the comparison → contrast direction.
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Markman & Gentner (1996) show one structural-alignment process yielding both commonalities and alignable differences, and alignable differences (not nonalignable ones) being central to comparison.
“Current research suggests that similarity is well characterized as a comparison of structured representations. This process yields commonalities, differences related to the commonalities (alignable differences), and differences not related to the commonalities (nonalignable differences). In the first study, further evidence for this tripartite distinction is provided in a commonality and difference listing study …”
- Contrast is comparison whose dimension selection and output relation are oriented toward difference: the operation runs, but the analyst foregrounds the gap rather than the overlap, a foregrounding that Markman and Gentner (1996) show empirically as the alignable-difference reading produced by the same structural-alignment machinery that yields commonalities.
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