Dedre Gentner

Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology & Education

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Analogical Learning

Gentner, D. (2010). Bootstrapping the mind: Analogical processes and symbol systems. Cognitive Science, 34(5), 752-775.

Gentner, D., Levine, S. C., Dhillon, S., Ping, R., Bradley, C., Isaia, A., & Honke, G. (2016). Rapid learning in a children’s museum via analogical comparison. Cognitive Science, 40, 224-240.

Goldwater, M. B., & Gentner, D. (2015). On the acquisition of abstract knowledge: Structural alignment and explication in learning causal system categories. Cognition, 137, 137-153.

Kurtz, K. J., Miao, C., & Gentner, D. (2001). Learning by analogical bootstrapping. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 10, 417-446.

Gentner, D. (2003). Why we’re so smart. In D. Gentner and S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.), Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and cognition (pp. 195-235). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2010). Where hypotheses come from: Learning new relations by structural alignment. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11(3), 356-373.

Gentner, D., & Medina, J. (1997). Comparison and the development of cognition and language. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 4, 112-149

Gentner, D. & Namy, L. L. (2006). Analogical processes in language learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 297-301.

Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., & Hung, B. (2007). Comparison facilitates children’s learning of names for parts. Journal of Cognition and Development, 8, 285-307.

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