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Inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking
Analogical reasoning is a complex cognitive activity that involves access and retrieval of pre-existing knowledge in order to find a suitable solution. Prior work has shown that analogical transfer and reasoning can be influenced by unconscious activation of relevant information. Based on this idea,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6372166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30753208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211881 |
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author | Valle, Tania M. Gómez-Ariza, Carlos J. Bajo, M. Teresa |
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description | Analogical reasoning is a complex cognitive activity that involves access and retrieval of pre-existing knowledge in order to find a suitable solution. Prior work has shown that analogical transfer and reasoning can be influenced by unconscious activation of relevant information. Based on this idea, we report two experiments that examine whether reduced access to relevant information in memory may further disrupt analogical reasoning unwittingly. In both experiments, we use an adaptation of the retrieval practice paradigm [1] to modulate memory accessibility of potential solutions to a subsequent set of analogy problems of the type ‘A is to B as C is to ?’. Experiment 1 showed a retrieval-induced impairment in analogical problem solving. Experiment 2 replicated this finding and demonstrated that it cannot be due to the deliberative episodic retrieval of the solutions to the analogies. These findings, predictable from an inhibitory framework of memory control, provide a new focus for theories of analogical transfer and highlight the importance of unconscious memory processes that may modulate problem solving. |
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spelling | pubmed-63721662019-03-01 Inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking Valle, Tania M. Gómez-Ariza, Carlos J. Bajo, M. Teresa PLoS One Research Article Analogical reasoning is a complex cognitive activity that involves access and retrieval of pre-existing knowledge in order to find a suitable solution. Prior work has shown that analogical transfer and reasoning can be influenced by unconscious activation of relevant information. Based on this idea, we report two experiments that examine whether reduced access to relevant information in memory may further disrupt analogical reasoning unwittingly. In both experiments, we use an adaptation of the retrieval practice paradigm [1] to modulate memory accessibility of potential solutions to a subsequent set of analogy problems of the type ‘A is to B as C is to ?’. Experiment 1 showed a retrieval-induced impairment in analogical problem solving. Experiment 2 replicated this finding and demonstrated that it cannot be due to the deliberative episodic retrieval of the solutions to the analogies. These findings, predictable from an inhibitory framework of memory control, provide a new focus for theories of analogical transfer and highlight the importance of unconscious memory processes that may modulate problem solving. Public Library of Science 2019-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6372166/ /pubmed/30753208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211881 Text en © 2019 Valle et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Valle, Tania M. Gómez-Ariza, Carlos J. Bajo, M. Teresa Inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking |
title | Inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking |
title_full | Inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking |
title_fullStr | Inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking |
title_full_unstemmed | Inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking |
title_short | Inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking |
title_sort | inhibitory control during selective retrieval may hinder subsequent analogical thinking |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6372166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30753208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211881 |
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