Lucas Raynal

University of Geneva | UNIGE · IDEA

Analogies are fundamental to our minds as they allow us to interpret incoming experiences, which are always, strictly speaking, new, in light of more familiar situations. This chapter explores the processes involved in building an initial representation, as well as their link with the type of analogies that can be implemented. It proposes that prio...

This study investigates whether the ERPs of 4-years-olds in response to verbal overextensions reflect the encoding of actions through abstract categories. Participants were presented with images of actions (e.g. peeling an orange) while hearing a sentence containing a conventional verb (e.g. peeling), an approximative verb (e.g. undressing), a supe...

L’analogie est un mécanisme fondamental permettant d’interpréter une nouvelle situation à travers des expériences passées. La présente thèse vise à redonner toute sa force à ce postulat en mettant en avant la capacité à percevoir comme essentiellement similaires des expériences d’apparence pourtant différentes. Partant du principe que les analogies...

In the present study, we tested the assumption that structural similarity overcomes surface similarity in the retrieval of past events, by observing whether structural similarity alone is a better cue than surface similarity alone. To do so, in four story-recall experiments, we provided the participants with multiple source stories and then with a...

In this ongoing study, we test the dominance of structural similarity alone over surface similarity alone in the retrieval of videotaped situations preserving rich surface details.

In this study, we test the possibility that real-life events induce an abstract category activation in a way that permits structurally-based retrievals. We used a free-recall reminding paradigm where participants had to report any memory that come to mind when faced with a target cue embodying a familiar concept. This method allowed us to consider...

I have presented this poster at CogSci 2018. The study demonstrates that participants mainly retrieve distant analogs when the target cue embodies a familiar concept and that participants can retrieve any analogs from their own experiences.

Isolating the influence of surface and structural similarities on the recall of stories leads to the superiority of structural similarities.

The predominant view concerning determinants of analogical retrieval is that it is preferentially guided by superficial cues. In order to test the cognitive plausibility of a structural similarities-based retrieval, we constructed a story-recall task in which lifelike scenarios shared structural correspondences. In Experiment 1, we showed that such...