Dedre Gentner
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Dedre Gentner is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. She is the world leader in the study of analogical reasoning. Her work on structure-mapping theory was foundational for the development of the Structure Mapping Engine by Ken Forbus.
Publications
The following are in-print books by Gentner; see her home page for further publications.
- The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science by Dedre Gentner (Editor), Keith J. Holyoak (Editor), Boicho Kokinov (Editor), ISBN 0-262-57139-0
- Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought, by Dedre Gentner (Editor), Susan Goldin-Meadow (Editor), ISBN 0-262-57163-3
- Mental Models (Cognitive Science (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).), by Albert L. Stevens, Dedre Gentner, ISBN 0-89859-242-9
- Proceedings Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, by Cognitive Science Society, Kristian J. Hammond (Editor), Dedre Gentner (Editor), ISBN 0-8058-1138-9
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