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Veranstaltungsnummer:: 8.3009
Veranstaltungsart:: Studienprojekt
StudIP:: https://studip.uni-osnabrueck.de/dispatch.php/course/details/?again=1&sem_id=993dfeaf0f368409de6e5fe47250a857
Semester:: SoSe 2007 - WiSe 2007/08
ECTS-Punkte:: 12
Voraussetzungen:: No pre-requisites are required, however having experiences / taking pleasure in - the design and realization of psychological experiments (for those interested in the experimental aspects of the study project) - the implementation in Prolog (for those interested in the further developing and advancing the HDTP approach) are helpful.

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Beschreibung

Analogies play a central role in human cognition, for example in reasoning and learning processes. They are often used to explain and understand new phenomena by already known facts from a familiar domain. Analogies are used in education and science as well as in everyday life. The AI group at the IKW has been studying analogies for past few years and developed a formal framework for handling analogies called HDTP (Heuristic-Driven Theory Projection).

The aim of the study project is to provide empirical evidence for analogical cognitive processes. This includes planning, preparation, realization and evaluation of an appropriate psychological experiment. The results shall be analyzed and integrated into the framework of HDTP.

Therefore this study project meets different realms of interest. It is suitable for students interested in performing psychological experiments as well as for those who like to formalize the findings and implement the resulting models. The participants will learn to organize project work in an interdisciplinary setting. Furthermore they will have the chance to cooperate with a current research project on analogies funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).