The following experiments addressed whether there are further restrictions that guide a more fine-grained selection of exemplars. Experiment 2 replicated this finding with analogies between situations maintaining a higher degree of semantic and contextual distance. Experiment 1 revealed that for analogies in which the gist of the information to be transferred is better captured by relational categories than by explicit relations, inferences are more concerned with reinstantiating the base relational category than with ensuring that the relation of the inference resembles that of the base. In the present study we argue that this mechanism does not adequately explain the generation of inferences mediated by relational categories. The standard approach posits that analogical inferences are generated by copying unmapped base relations, substituting mapped target entities for source entities, and generating slots for base entities that have not found a correspondence in the target.
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