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    Analogical reasoning fundamentally involves exploiting redundancy in a given task, but there are many different ways an intelligent agent can choose to define and exploit redundancy, often resulting in very different levels of task performance. We explore such variations in analogical reasoning within the domain of geometric matrix reasoning tasks, namely on the Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices intelligence test. We show how different analogical constructions used by the same basic visual-imagery-based computational model—varying only in how they “slice” a matrix problem into parts and do search and optimization within/across these parts—achieve very different levels of test performance, ranging from 13/60 correct all the way up to 57/60 correct. Our findings suggest that the ability to select or build effective high-level analogical constructions can be as important as an agent’s competencies in low-level reasoning skills, which raises interesting open questions about the extent to which building the “right” analogies might contribute to individual differences in human matrix reasoning performance, and how intelligent agents might learn to build or select from among different analogical constructions in the first place. 
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