In my view, one of the most vexing of all types of questions used on IQ tests is the one that asks us to complete an analogical formula such as the following one: Bird is to flying as human is to... I ...

It was over 25 years ago that I read John Irving's remarkable A Prayer for Owen Meany. I remember the book as the finest fiction I had ever encountered. Recently I had the opportunity to download it ...

"Analogical reasoning, matching relations to relations, has been considered to be among the more so-called 'higher order' abstract reasoning processes," he says. "For decades such reasoning has been ...

Analogical reasoning, the process of identifying correspondences between seemingly disparate domains, is fundamental to human cognition. It facilitates problem solving and learning by allowing ...