Dedre Gentner

Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology & Education

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Gentner, D., & Bowdle, B. (2008) Metaphor as structure-mapping. In R. Gibbs (Ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (pp. 109-128). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Bowdle, B., & Gentner, D. (2005). The career of metaphor. Psychological Review, 112, 193-216.

Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (2011). Structure-mapping in metaphor comprehension. Cognitive Science, 35, 1456–1448.

Gentner, D., & Bowdle, B. (2002). Metaphor processing, psychology of. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (pp. 18-21). London: Nature Publishing Group.

Gentner, D., & Wolff, P. (1997). Alignment in the processing of metaphor. Journal of Memory and Language, 37, 331-355.

Gentner, D., Bowdle, B., Wolff, P., & Boronat, C. (2001). Metaphor is like analogy. In D. Gentner, K. J. Holyoak, & B. N. Kokinov. (Eds.), The analogical mind: Perspectives from cognitive science (pp. 199-253). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gentner, D., & Bowdle, B. F. (2001). Convention, form, and figurative language processing. Metaphor and Symbol, 16, 223-247.

Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (2000). Evidence for role-neutral initial processing of metaphors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 529-541.

Gentner, D., & Asmuth, J. (2019). Metaphoric extension, relational categories, and abstraction. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(10), 1298-1307.

King, D., & Gentner, D. (2022). Verb metaphoric extension under semantic strain. Cognitive Science, 46(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13141

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