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ILCLI Open Seminar<br/> Tuesday 25 February 2014, Room A3, Santamaria Centre <br/> From 13:00 to 14:30 <br/> <br/> <br/> Alain Ulazia <br/> ILCLI and Area of Fluid Mechanics <br/> Generation and evaluation of analogies and their heuristic power in problem solving <br/> <br/> Abstract <br/> <br/> In the context of cognitive science and problem solving, when a subject attempts to solve a problem A, it is said that an spontaneous analogy occurs when the subject, without provocation or any kind of guide, refers to another situation B where one or more features ordinarily assumed fixed in the original problem situation are different. Thus, the analogous case B is generated. After that, the subject indicates that certain relationships may be equivalent in A and B, that is, there is an evaluation of the analogical mapping A-B to find relevant relations for the problem. Finally, if a relevant relation is identified in B, it is transferred to A to solve the problem. In this process view of analogy, I will describe different examples of generation and evaluation of analogy in actual problem solving; for that, curious physical problems (Clement, 2009) and historical creative processes (Galileo, Newton) will be proposed to the participants in the seminar. <br/> <br/> People interested in taking part please send a message by February 24 to: <br/> jesusmaria.larrazabal@ehu.es