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      The development of analogy making in children: Cognitive load and executive functions

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      Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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          The aim of the current study was to investigate the performance of 6-, 8-, and 14-year-olds on an analogy-making task involving analogies in which there are competing perceptual and relational matches. We hypothesized that the selection of the common relational structure requires the inhibition of other salient features, in particular, perceptual matches. Using an A:B::C:D paradigm, we showed that children's performance in analogy-making tasks depends crucially on the nature of the distractors. Children chose more perceptual distractors having a common feature with C compared with A or B (Experiment 1). In addition, they were also influenced by unstructured random textures. When measuring reaction times instead of accurate responses, only the 8-year-olds' reaction times were significantly influenced by perceptual distractors. The 6-year-olds seemed to select the first match they noticed, and the 14-year-olds were not influenced (or much less influenced) by featural distractors. These results are compatible with an analogy-making account based on varying limitations in executive functioning at different ages. 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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          Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
          Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
          Elsevier BV
          00220965
          May 2010
          May 2010
          : 106
          : 1
          : 1-19
          Article
          10.1016/j.jecp.2010.01.001
          20153481
          cb45f63d-3d82-40d6-a767-6721020a15a9
          © 2010

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