Analogy-making automatically produces false memories for both mapped situations

Abstract

The central question in this paper is whether analogy-making automatically produces false memories for the mapped situations. Even in the case of analogy verification task where only analogical mapping between two given stimuli is required, analogical transfer seems to be automatically performed in both directions and as a consequence the transferred elements are wrongly recognized as part of the original stimuli. A computational model of the process is presented along with its simulation results and their verification in a psychological experiment. The predictions of the model are supported in the experiment.