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Jean-pierre Thibaut
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Understanding analogies: Processes and strategies across ages
2017
International audience
Generalizing relations during analogical problem solving in preschool children : does blocked or interleaved training improve performance ?
2017
International audience; Analogical reasoning, the mapping of structured relations across conceptual domains, is commonly recognized as essential to human cognition, but young children often perform poorly in the classical A:B::C:? analogical reasoning task. Particularly, young children have trouble when the objects in the task are not strongly associated with each other, and/or when there are strong associative lures among the potential answers. Here, we examine whether successive trials that repeat the same relation needed to solve the analogy can help overcome some of the challenges with weakly associated items. In the first of two experiments, our results were mixed. In the second, we si…
Analogical reasoning performance and organization is influenced by the type of semantic distractors : an investigation with adults
2015
International audience; The way participants adapt their search to the specifics of different types of analogies is not fully understood. We compared the effects of two types of semantic distractors. The first were related to C by a semantic relation which had nothing to do with the semantic relation used in the A:B pairs, whereas the second, the so-called "double distractors", were not only related to C but also had a semantic relation similar to the one linking A to B. We used eye-tracking measurements in addition to reaction time and performance indices. We found that performance decreased, and that the solution set was less explored visually with the double distractors than with the for…
Comparing competing views of analogy making using eye-tracking technology
2016
International audience; We used eye-tracking to study the time course of analogical reasoning in adults. We considered proportions of looking times and saccades. The main question was whether or not adults would follow the same search strategies for different types of analogical problems (Scene Analogies vs. Classical A:B:C:D vs a Scene version of A:B::C:D). We then compared these results to the predictions of various models of analogical reasoning. Results revealed a picture of common search patterns with local adaptations to the specifics of each paradigm in both looking-time duration and the number and types of saccades. These results are discussed in terms of conceptions of analogical r…
Apprendre : conceptualiser et généraliser de nouvelles notions : Quelles difficultés, parfois inattendues, surmonter ?
2016
Publication en ligne sur le site de la : Fondation La main à la pâte; National audience; Ce chapitre présente de manière vulgarisée les notions d'apprentissage conceptuel, de généralisation. On y dresse le portrait des obstacles ou, au contraire, les conditions d'apprentissage les plus favorables à l'apprentissage et la généralisation de notions, de concepts scolaires ou non.