Breaking the perceptual-conceptual barrier: Relational matching and working memory.
Cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychologists have long been interested in humans' and animals' ability to respond to abstract relations, as this ability may underlie important capacities like analogical reasoning. Cross-species research has used relational matching-to-sample (RMTS) tasks...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 544 - 561 |
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