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The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science
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The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science
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by Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, and Boicho N. Kokinov
Sales Rank : 420012
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Paperback: 541 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press March 5, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262571390
ISBN-13: 978-0262571395
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Description
Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical processing as the very core of cognition. This is the first book to span the full range of disciplines concerned with analogy. Its contributors represent cognitive, developmental, and comparative psychology; neuroscience; artificial intelligence; linguistics; and philosophy.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part describes computational models of analogy as well as their relation to computational models of other cognitive processes. The second part addresses the role of analogy in a wide range of cognitive tasks, such as forming complex cognitive structures, conveying emotion, making decisions, and solving problems. The third part looks at the development of analogy in children and the possible use of analogy in nonhuman primates.
Contributors:
Miriam Bassok, Consuelo B. Boronat, Brian Bowdle, Fintan Costello, Kevin Dunbar, Gilles Fauconnier, Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner, Usha Goswami, Brett Gray, Graeme S. Halford, Douglas Hofstadter, Keith J. Holyoak, John E. Hummel, Mark T. Keane, Boicho N. Kokinov, Arthur B. Markman, C. Page Moreau, David L. Oden, Alexander A. Petrov, Steven Phillips, David Premack, Cameron Shelley, Paul Thagard, Roger K. R. Thompson, William H. Wilson, Phillip Wolff.
About The Author
Dedre Gentner is Professor of Psychology and Education and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern University.
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