C. Brand

Analogies evolve by increasing transmission fidelity in the communication of complex information

This work first model the individual-level process of learning via analogy with access to a shared repertoire of cultural information, using NK landscapes to represent high-dimensional solution spaces for complex problems and suggests that even when analogy use is costly, it can nevertheless be advantageous by allowing learners to obtain high-quality solutions more efficiently and more often than those who do not learn via analogy.