When faced with something new, human beings instinctively reach for comparisons. A child learning about atoms might hear that electrons orbit the nucleus “like planets orbit the sun.” An entrepreneur ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Brandon Valeriano is the Donald Bren Chair at the Marine Corps University and a ...

Large language models are a class of AI algorithm that relies on a high number computational nodes and an equally large number of connections among them. They can be trained to perform a variety of ...

This article addresses the functions analogical reasoning may have in science and everyday life. The focus ranges from the heuristic and probative value of this kind of reasoning to its illustrative ...

Analogical, or case-based reasoning has received quite a bit of attention in the literature on foreign policy decision-making. There has been little attention paid to whether analogical reasoning does ...

Analogies are a mainstay of human communication and reasoning. We know instantly what it means to say that “Bing Cosby has a velvet voice” or that someone is “as annoying as fingernails on a ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ken Forbus is closing the gap between humans and machines. Using cognitive science theories, Forbus and his collaborators have developed a model that could give computers ...