Unveiling Analogical Reasoning Strategies: Insights from Eye Tracking in Four-Term Analogies

We applied eye tracking and semantically rich four-term analogies with a broad range of distractor types to investigate strategies of analogical reasoning. We adopted the operationalization of strategies proposed in previous eyetracking studies and introduced an alternative, more finegrained method of presenting gaze dynamics across a trial in a four-term analogy (A:B::C:D). Our analysis of fixations and transitions between Areas of Interest provided support for existing research findings, suggesting that the primary and most effective strategy when solving four-term analogies is the so-called projection-first strategy, which focuses on the source-domain relation and its generalization to the target domain. Full text: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cb7660h This work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland [Grant Number: 2021/41/N/HS6/01620].