Walker and Gopnik (2017) suggest they have solved a longstanding problem in comparative and developmental psychology: How to provide an unambiguous measure of analogical reasoning in nonverbal subjects. We argue that this test, much like many others that purport to measure analogical reasoning in nonverbal subjects, does not distinguish between the two competing accounts of successful performance: the use of perceptual variance among stimuli to support higher-order concepts like “same” and “different” versus use of perceptual variance alone.

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类比推理的非语言测量仍然没有解决方案：回复 Walker 和 Gopnik (2017)

Walker 和 Gopnik (2017) 表示，他们已经解决了比较心理学和发展心理学中一个长期存在的问题：如何在非语言科目中提供类比推理的明确衡量标准。我们认为，这个测试与许多其他旨在测量非语言受试者的类比推理的测试一样，并没有区分成功表现的两种相互竞争的解释：使用刺激之间的感知差异来支持“相同”和“相同”等高阶概念。 “不同”与单独使用感知差异。