Dedre Gentner

Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology & Education

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Gentner, D. (2016). Language as cognitive tool kit: How language supports relational thought. American Psychologist. 71(8):650-657.

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

Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2014). Language helps children succeed on a classic analogy task. Cognitive Science, 38, 383-397.

Loewenstein, J., & Gentner, D. (2005). Relational language and the development of relational mapping. Cognitive Psychology, 50, 315-353.

Gentner, D., Özyürek, A., Gürcanli, Ö., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2013). Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input. Cognition, 127(3), 318-330.

Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2010). Mutual bootstrapping between language and analogical processing. Language and Cognition, 2(2), 261-283.

Gentner, D., Anggoro, F. K., & Klibanoff, R. S. (2011). Structure-mapping and relational language support children’s learning of relational categories. Child Development, 82(4), 1173-1188.

Jamrozik, A., & Gentner, D. (2020). Relational labeling unlocks inert knowledge. Cognition, 196, 104146.

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. (2012). Language and cognition in development. In M. M. Spivey, K. McRae, & M. Joanisse (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 653-673.

Feist, M. I., & Gentner, D. (2007). Spatial language influences memory for spatial scenes. Memory and Cognition, 35, 283-296.

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