Towards a category theory approach to analogy: Analyzing re-representation and acquisition of numerical knowledge.

Category Theory, a branch of mathematics, has shown promise as a modeling framework for higher-level cognition. We introduce an algebraic model for analogy that uses the language of category theory to explore analogy-related cognitive phenomena. To illustrate the potential of this approach, we use t...

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Main Authors: Jairo A Navarrete, Pablo Dartnell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5589272?pdf=render