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Gentner Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Gentner, D., and Whitley, E. Mental models of population growth: A preliminary investigation. Gentner, D., and Toupin, C. Systematicity and surface similarity in the development of analogy. Gentner, D., and France, I. The verb mutability effect: Studies of the combinatorial semantics of nouns and verbs. www.psych.northwestern.edu /psych/people/faculty/gentner/allpubs.htm   (3464 words)

MEMOpsci.01a   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Second, as suggested by Forbus, Gentner and Law (1995), it may lead to increased uniformity of systems that are common across domain exemplars and thus contribute to the ability of experts to retrieve prior cases that share relational structure with the current case. Kotovsky and Gentner (1996; Gentner, Rattermann, Markman and Kotovsky, 1995) found that 4-year-olds were better able to match higher-order perceptual relations, such as symmetry or monotonic increase, after repeated experience aligning within-dimension comparisons. In one study, Gentner and Imai (1995) taught preschool children a novel word (e.g., they pointed to an apple and said "This is a dax"). cogprints.org /680/00/alignability.html   (4280 words)

DBLP: Dedre Gentner Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner, Arthur B. Markman, Ronald W. Ferguson: Analogy just looks like high level perception: why a domain-general approach to analogical mapping is right. Dedre Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus: A Note on "Creativity and Learning in a Case-Based Explainer". Dedre Gentner, Cecile Toupin: Systematicity and Surface Similarity in the Development of Analogy. sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/g/Gentner:Dedre.html   (175 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Gentner's CV and selected publications are in a blue folder in the psychology lounge. Dedre Gentner Northwestern University Why We're So Smart: A Structure-mapping Account of Learning and Development Monday, November 8, 2004 4:30-6:00 p.m. Scaife Hall 125 (located on Frew Street, CMU campus) A pervasive view in cognitive development is that the sophistication and rapid gains that seem to characterize infant cognition can only be explained by assuming that infants begin with substantial amounts of innate knowledge. www.psy.cmu.edu:16080 /home/events/gentner.txt   (310 words)

Citations: Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy - Gentner (ResearchIndex) According to Gentner s [41] Structure Mapping Theory (SMT) a good analogy is one where relations between entities match well, without regard to what they are relating. Gentner, "Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy," Cognitive Science, vol. Gentner, Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy, Cognitive Sci. citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/74799/0   (1309 words)

<B><FONT FACE="TIMES" SIZE=4><P ALIGN="CENTER">On the Proper Treatment of ... This paper responds to the claim of Veale, O'Donoghue and Keane (1995) that SME (Falkenhainer, Forbus and Gentner, 1989; Forbus, Ferguson and Gentner, 1994) performs poorly on noun-noun comparisons, such as A surgeon is like a butcher. Gentner and Clement found that adult ratings of metaphor aptness are positively correlated with the amount of relational information in their interpretations (as independently judged) and are noncorrelated or negatively correlated with the amount of object-attribute information. Gentner, D., & Clement, C. Evidence for relational selectivity in the interpretation of analogy and metaphor. www.qrg.northwestern.edu /papers/Files/nnmetaphor/nnmetacs.htm   (695 words)

Assignments for Music 25700/31900 Dedre Gentner, et al., “Metaphor is Like Analogy,” in The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science, ed. Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, and Boicho N. Kokinov (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001) [Call no.: BF458.A53 2001], 199-253; available as a pdf. Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003), 493-522; pdf available. humanities.uchicago.edu /classes/zbikowski/319assgn.html   (2182 words)

Dedre.Gentner In sum, I suggest that mutual bootstrapping between structure-mapping processes and relational language is a major contributor to human cognition. Dedre Gentner’s research is on the psychology of learning and reasoning and the development of cognition and language. In language learning, Gentner’s hypothesis of a language-universal advantage for nouns in children’s early word learning that has engendered considerable research. www.cogsci.buffalo.edu /People/Distinguishedspeakers/gentner05.htm   (457 words)

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Gentner, Dedre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Gentner, Dedre - Her research interests also include computational simulation of comparison processes and studies of analogy and similarity in cognitive development, as well as cross-linguistic investigations of language and thought. Dedre Gentner is a Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. Gentner received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, San Diego, in 1974. www.artsci.wustl.edu /~philos/MindDict/gentner.html   (246 words)

Dedre Gentner - The MIT Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Dedre Gentner is Professor of Psychology and Education and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern University. Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak and Boicho K. Kokinov (Eds.) Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak and Boicho N. Kokinov (Eds.) mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/author?aid=195   (86 words)

Citations: Some Observations on Mental Models - Norman (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) A defining quality of mental models that differentiates them from other cognitive structures is that these models can be run, like simulations, to help people reason about dynamic behavior [5] A mental model of a feedback system, therefore, allows a person to reason about the feedback system to.... In Gentner, D. and Stevens, A. (eds.), Mental Models, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1983. In Dedre Gentner and Albert Stevens, editors, Mental Models. citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/58802/0   (2062 words)

Areas: Cognitive, Psychology Dept., WCAS The following is a listing of cognitive faculty currently doing developmental work, as well as a brief overview of the research questions they are addressing. Developmental Interests: The Gentner lab works with children from 30 months to 7 years of age, with a focus on children between 3 and 5. Professor Gentner is interested in issues concerning the development of an understanding of similarity, analogy, and metaphor. www.wcas.northwestern.edu /psych/programs/cogdev.html   (270 words)

ZoomInfo Web Summary: Dedre Gentner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Dedre Gentner, professor, Department of Psychology and Education, and director of the Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern University, will discuss "Comparison and Cognition" on Thursday, April 23, at 4:15 p.m. Leigh Thompson and Dedre Gentner of Nort-hwestern University and Jeffrey Loewenstein of the University of Texas have shown that people learn far more from classes when they are able to take away an abstraction. In their analogical reasoning research, Mr Thompson, Mr Gentner and Mr Loewenstein argue that abstracting similar lessons from two or more episodes creates insights that people can actually use in their next negotiation. www.zoominfo.com /directory/Gentner_Dedre_7257013.htm   (140 words)

Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dedre Gentner The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science by Dedre Gentner (Editor), Keith J. Holyoak (Editor), Boicho K. Kokinov (Editor), ISBN 0262571390 Mental Models (Cognitive Science (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).), by Albert L. Stevens, Dedre Gentner, ISBN 0898592429 Proceedings Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, by Cognitive Science Society, Kristian J. Hammond (Editor), Dedre Gentner (Editor), ISBN 0805811389 www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dedre_Gentner   (158 words)

How the Power of Analogy Impacts Learning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Northwestern University Professor of Psychology Dedre Gentner will discuss analogical learning, including her new research findings on a remarkably effective use of analogy called analogical encoding, which sparks early learning in children and advanced learning in adults. She will explore how people map knowledge from one situation to another, and how a person can compare two situations and come to a better understanding of both. Gentner will also explore how language learning interacts with analogical reasoning to bootstrap human cognitive ability. events.stanford.edu /events/31/3158   (92 words)

[No title] In this article Gentner argues that scientific analogies and metaphors both rest on strucutre mappings between domains of knowledge and hence are more alike than different. Her examples (Galileo's earth/ship falling stone analogy, Eliot's voices as dried grass in The Hollow Men and Shakespeare's "It is the east and Juliet is the sun!" metaphor) are excellent for sorting out what she means by these criteria. An anthology with some very revealing case studies, including Gentner & Gentner on structure mapping in mental models of electricity and Hutchins on measurement and the bird's eye-view of western navigation v. philosophy.uoregon.edu /metaphor/annbib.htm   (4099 words)

Analogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) It has been argued (Morrison and Dietrich 1995) that Hofstadter's and Gentner's groups do not defend opposite views, but are instead dealing with different aspects of analogy. In linguistics, an analogy can be a spoken or textual comparison between two words (or sets of words) to highlight some form of semantic similarity between them. Dedre Gentner's publications page, most of them on analogy and available for download. www.abitabouteverything.com /files/a/an/analogy.html   (2208 words)

JLS: Vol. 10, No. 4 Kenneth J. Kurtz, Chun-Hui Miao, and Dedre Gentner Finally I conclude with reflections and future work that points toward a new agenda in the area of the learning sciences. Analogies are typically drawn from a well-understood situation to a situation that is poorly understood. www-static.cc.gatech.edu /computing/lst/jls/vol10no4.html   (954 words)

Xunesis Partner Dedre Gentner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Dr. Gentner is professor of psychology and of education and social policy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is also the director of the Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern. Gentner's research interests include learning and thinking; Analogy, Similarity and Metaphor; Concepts and Conceptual Structure; Language and Cognition; Language Acquisition and Cross-linguistic Studies. www.xunesis.org /people_advisors_gentner.html   (79 words)

Abstract for NCARAI Seminar - Barbara Tversky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) I'll describe studies of learning in complex domains that show that analogical encoding can promote relational insight. Dedre Gentner's research is on human learning and thinking. Her research is on analogy and similarity in learning and reasoning and on interactions between cognition and learned representational systems. www.nrl.navy.mil /aic/seminars/02to03/Gentner-abs.html   (214 words)

Plan-It Purple Event Details: Virtual Colloquium Cognitive Science Dedre Gentner - March 05, 2004 This Friday, March 5, at noon, Northwestern's own Professor Dedre Gentner will be giving a talk via international webscast about her research in analogical learning. You can watch and listen to this talk, and participate by asking questions or making comments, from any computer on the web. You can register and set up the presentation any time before the colloquium (it takes about 10 minutes for the installation). aquavite.northwestern.edu /cal/pp/eventd.cgi?e=19938   (114 words)

Ten elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Observer Online (05-13-2004), Northwestern University Dedre Gentner’s research interests are in cognitive psychology, specifically in learning and thinking; analogy, similarity and metaphor; concepts and conceptual structure; language and cognition; language acquisition; and cross-linguistic studies. She serves as director of the Cognitive Science Program which offers a graduate specialization and an undergraduate major in cognitive science, with particular strengths in higher-order cognition, language and learning. Gentner is the author of a number of publications, including “The Analogical Mind” (MIT Press) and “Individuation, Relativity and Early Word Learning” (Cambridge University Press). www.northwestern.edu /observer/issues/2004-05-13/aaas.html?printable   (1454 words)

Bibliography Using the method of fibres in Mecho to calculate radii of gyration. In Dedre Gentner and Albert L. Stevens, editors, Mental Models. Brian Falkenhainer, Kenneth D. Forbus, and Dedre Gentner. www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~afb21/publications/masters/node101.html   (3061 words)

Leigh Thompson: What's New Now that I have 3 children (all under 5!), I've developed more than a passing interest in articles that I find empowering and informative. Partnerships: With the recent grant that Dedre Gentner, Jeff Loewenstein and I received from Citigroup, I've become more interested in pursuing academia-industry partnerships. I think there is a lot of real win-win potential for academics and companies. www.leighthompson.com /whats_new.htm   (497 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) This workshop presented and discussed admissibility of solutions from a diversity of perspectives: Developmental Psychology (Jean Mandler, Alison Gopnik, Frank Keil, Jesse Snedeker), Computational Psychology (Jay McClelland/Timothy Rogers, Sourabh Niyogi, Dedre Gentner), and Philosophy (Jerry Fodor, Stephen Laurence/Eric Margolis). The workshop was held in two sessions on July 22, 2005. These dynamics provide a basis for understanding both the emergence and the reorganization of concepts during development. web.mit.edu /~niyogi/www/conceptacquisition   (2819 words)

JLS: Vol. 6, No. 1 Dedre Gentner, Sarah Brem, Ronald W. Ferguson, Arthur B. Markman, Bjorn B. Levidow, Phillip Wolff, and Kenneth D. Forbus The work of Johannes Kepler offers clear examples of conceptual change. These findings indicate the promise of using mediated learning situations, such as a DSA to study conceptual change in science, and we discuss the direction of future work given the conservative mediation in the assessments conducted in this particular instance. www.cc.gatech.edu /lst/jls/vol6no1.html   (1312 words)

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Books: The Analogical Mind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Dedre Gentner Keith J. Holyoak Boicho K. Kokinov by Keith J. Holyoak, Dedre Gentner and Boicho N. Kokinov by Dedre Gentner, Brian Bowdle, Phillip Wolff and Consuelo Boronat cognet.mit.edu /library/books/view?isbn=0262571390   (276 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) "Similarity and the Development of Rules." Dedre Gentner and Jose Medina. "Structural Alignment Facilitates Discovering Differences." Dedre Gentner and Virginia Gunn. "Informativity and Asymmetry in Comparisons.&qot; Brian F. Bowdle and Dedre Gentner. www.cs.berkeley.edu /~ryanc/reading.html   (527 words)

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