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Name :	Prof Paul Thagard *		Name:
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Talk Number:	08-01		E-mail:
Session:	8- Analogy in Reasoning and Construction		Schedule:   Room:	Saturday, 14:00   B-3420
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Title of presentation:	How brains compute analogies
Abstract:
In our 1996 book, Mental Leaps, Keith Holyoak and I presented a psychological theory of how people perform analogical thinking. We argued that retrieval, mapping, and transfer of analogical information involve 3 constraints: similarity, structure, and purpose. In the past decade, much has been learned about the neural processes that underlie these constraints. This talk will offer a computational account of how neural networks compute similarity, structure, and purpose.