Research Catalog

Title

The analogical mind : perspectives from cognitive science / edited by Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, and Boicho N. Kokinov.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Gentner, Dedre.
• Holyoak, Keith James, 1950-
• Kokinov, Boicho N.

Description

xii, 541 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Analogy > Congresses
• Cognition > Congresses
• Symbolism (Psychology) > Congresses
• Similarity (Psychology) > Congresses

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the World Wide Web.

Contents

Introduction: the place of analogy in cognition / Keith J. Holyoak, Dedre Gentner, and Boicho N. Kokinov -- Exploring analogy in the large / Kenneth D. Forbus -- Integrating memory and reasoning in analogy-making: the AMBR model / Boicho N. Kokinov and Alexander A. Petrov -- The STAR-2 model for mapping hierarchically structured analogs / William H. Wilson ... [et al.] -- Toward an understanding of analogy within a biological symbol system / Keith J. Holyoak and John E. Hummel -- Metaphor is like analogy / Dedre Gentner ... [et al.] -- Conceptual blending and analogy / Gilles Fauconnier -- Setting limits on analogy: why conceptual combination is not structural alignment / Mark T. Keane and Fintan Costello -- The analogical paradox: why analogy is so easy in naturalistic settings yet so difficult in the psychological laboratory / Kevin Dunbar -- Emotional analogies and analogical inference / Paul Thagard and Cameron Shelley -- Analogy and analogical comparison in choice / Arthur B. Markman and C. Page Moreau -- Semantic alignments in mathematical word problems / Miriam Bassok -- Analogical reasoning in children / Usha Goswami -- Can an ape reason analogically? Comprehension and production of analogical problems by Sarah, a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) / David L. Oden ... [et al.] -- Epilogue: analogy as the core of cognition / Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Call Number

JFE 02-10224

ISBN

• 0262072068 (hc.)
• 0262571390 (pbk.)

LCCN

00057889

OCLC

44518245

Title

The analogical mind : perspectives from cognitive science / edited by Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, and Boicho N. Kokinov.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Restricted to MIT Press CogSci subscribers

Added Author

Gentner, Dedre.

Holyoak, Keith James, 1950-

Kokinov, Boicho N.

Research Call Number

JFE 02-10224