How are people able to map knowledge from one domain to another? I'll report a series of studies showing that people's cross-domain mappings were best predicted by similarity along abstract dimensions such as valence, complexity, and genderedness - a finding that could be reliably simulated by language models. In an ongoing study, we further asked what allows people to process cross-domain mappings so easily by drawing insights from a network perspective.

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