Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This paper describes some results of research aimed at understanding the structures and processes required for understanding analogical thinking that involves images and diagrams. W e will describe V A M P . l and V A M P . 2 , two programs for visual analogical mt^ping. VAMP.l uses a knowledge representation scheme proposed by Janice Glasgow that captures spatial information using nested threedimensional arrays. V A M P . 2 overcomes some limitations of V A M P . l by replacing the array representation with a scheme inspired by Minsky's Society of Mind and connectionism.