Analogical transfer from interaction with a simulated physical system
Samuel B. Day, Robert L. Goldstone · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2009
In two studies, we find that participants are able to transfer strategies learned while interacting with a simulated physical system to a dissimilar and less perceptually-concrete domain.Interestingly, performance on the transfer task was completely unrelated to explicit knowledge of the structural correspondences between the systems.We suggest that direct interaction with a concrete system may lead to a kind of procedural knowledge that provides a good basis for analogical transfer.