creators_name: Fields, Chris
creators_id: fieldsres@gmail.com
type: preprint
datestamp: 2011-03-11 22:24:51
lastmod: 2011-03-11 22:24:51
metadata_visibility: show
title: Motion as manipulation: Implementation of motion and force analogies by event-file binding and action planning

subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: Structure mapping; Tool improvisation; Rutherford-atom analogy; Mirror-neuron system; Cognitive impenetrability; Conceptual reasoning
abstract: Tool improvisation analogies are a special case of motion and force analogies that appear to be implemented pre-conceptually, in many species, by event-file binding and action planning.  A detailed reconstruction of the analogical reasoning steps involved in Rutherford's and Bohr's development of the first quantized-orbit model of atomic structure is used to show that human motion and force analogies generally can be implemented by the event-file binding and action planning mechanism.  Predictions that distinguish this model from competing concept-level models of analogy are discussed, available data pertaining to them are reviewed, and further experimental tests are proposed.
date: 2011-03-05
date_type: submitted
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Fields, Chris  (2011) Motion as manipulation: Implementation of motion and force analogies by event-file binding and action planning.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/7235/1/force-analogy-pre-110305.pdf