Dedre Gentner

Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology & Education


Curriculum vitae



(847)467-1272


Department of Psychology

Northwestern University



Publications


Relational Learning: Common Signatures Across Four Different Contexts


Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner, Stella Christie, Qiuchen Ma, Benjamin D. Jee, F. Anggoro, Kenneth D. Forbus

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023


Spatial alignment supports comparison of life science images.


Nina K Simms, Bryan J. Matlen, Benjamin D. Jee, D. Gentner

Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, 2023


The Less is More Paradox in Relational Learning


Erin M. Anderson, Apoorva Shivaram, Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023


Verb Metaphors are Processed as Analogies


Daniel C. King, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023


When do Children Pass the Relational-Match-To-Sample Task?


Apoorva Shivaram, Ruxue Shao, Nina K Simms, Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023


Spatial Alignment Facilitates Visual Comparison in Children


Yinyuan Zheng, Bryan J. Matlen, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022


Spatial alignment facilitates visual comparison in diagonal structures


Bryan J. Matlen, Steven Franconeri, D. Gentner, Benjamin D. Jee, Nina K Simms

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022


Spatial supports for comparison in educational science images


Benjamin D. Jee, Bryan J. Matlen, Monica Greenlaw, Nina K Simms, D. Gentner

Instructional Science, 2022


Tracing the developmental trajectory of children's relational learning


Apoorva Shivaram, Elsa Brundige, Lucas Guy, Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022


Analogy Generation in Science Experts and Novices


Micah B. Goldwater, D. Gentner, N. LaDue, J. Libarkin

Cognitive Sciences, 2021


Learning same and different relations: cross-species comparisons


D. Gentner, Ruxue Shao, Nina K Simms, Susan J. Hespos

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021


No evidence for language benefits in infant relational learning.


Erin M. Anderson, Yin-Juei Chang, Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner

Infant Behavior and Development, 2021


Students Prefer to Learn from Figures that Include Spatial Supports for Comparison


Bryan J. Matlen, D. Gentner, Nina K Simms, Yinyuan Zheng, Benjamin D. Jee

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021


The origins of same/different discrimination in human infants


Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner, Erin M. Anderson, Apoorva Shivaram

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021


Verb Metaphoric Extension Under Semantic Strain


Daniel C. King, D. Gentner

Cognitive Sciences, 2021


Verbs are More Metaphoric than Nouns: Evidence from the Lexicon


Daniel C. King, D. Gentner, Fanyi Mo

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021


Analogical Comparison Promotes Theory-of-Mind Development


C. Hoyos, W. Horton, Nina K Simms, D. Gentner

Cognitive Sciences, 2020


How Do Verbs Change Their Meaning? Evidence for Minimal Subtraction


Daniel C. King, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020


Is Snow Really Like a Shovel? Distinguishing Similarity from Thematic Relatedness


D. Gentner, Sarah K. Brem

Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020


Metaphor Comprehension: From Comparison to Categorization


Brian F. Bowdle, D. Gentner

Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020


Running Head: SPATIAL ALIGNMENT Spatial Alignment Facilitates Visual Comparison


Bryan J. Matlen, D. Gentner, S. Franconeri, Bryan J. Matlen

2020


Simulating the Effects of Relational Language in the Development of Spatial Mapping Abilities


Thomas Mostek, Jeffrey Loewenstein, Ken Forbus, D. Gentner

Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020


Spatial alignment facilitates visual comparison.


Bryan J. Matlen, D. Gentner, S. Franconeri

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2020


Spatial alignment supports comparison of life science visuals for 7th graders


Nina K Simms, Benjamin D. Jee, Bryan J. Matlen, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020


Cognitive Science Is and Should Be Pluralistic


D. Gentner

Topics in Cognitive Science, 2019


Co-thought gestures during abstract relational reasoning


Misha Ash, Kensy Cooperrider, D. Gentner, S. Goldin‐Meadow

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


Explanation recruits comparison in a category-learning task


B. Edwards, J. Williams, D. Gentner, T. Lombrozo

Cognition, 2019


Finding the middle: Spatial language and spatial reasoning


Nina K Simms, D. Gentner

Cognitive development, 2019


How Does Current AI Stack Up Against Human Intelligence?


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner, J. Laird, T. Shultz, A. S. Nobandegani, Paul Thagard

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


Incremental Structure-Mapping


Kenneth D. Forbus, R. W. Ferguson, D. Gentner

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


Polysemy and Verb Mutability: Differing Processes of Semantic Adjustment for Verbs and Nouns


Daniel C. King, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


Relational labeling unlocks inert knowledge


Anja Jamrozik, D. Gentner

Cognition, 2019


Simulating Similarity-Based Retrieval: A Comparison of ARCS and MAC/FAC


K. Law, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


Spatial Alignment Enhances Comparison of Complex Educational Visuals


Bryan J. Matlen, Benjamin D. Jee, Nina K Simms, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


Symmetry: Low-level visual feature or abstract relation?


Ruxue Shao, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


The career of measurement


Kensy Cooperrider, D. Gentner

Cognition, 2019


The Coherence Imbalance Hypothesis: A Functional Approach to Asymmetry in Comparison


D. Gentner, Brian F. Bowdle

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


Why do metaphors seem deeper than similes?


Sergey S Zharikov, D. Gentner

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019


Comparison within pairs promotes analogical abstraction in three-month-olds


Erin M. Anderson, Yin-Juei Chang, Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner

Cognition, 2018


Relational Categories: Why they're Important and How they are Learned


D. Gentner, Nina K Simms, K. Kurtz, Garrett Honke, Sean Snoddy, Kenneth D. Forbus, L. Richland, Bryan J. Matlen, E. Lyons, Ellen C. Klostermann

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018


Same/different relation detection and word production in 4-year-olds


Ruxue Shao, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018


Supports for Visual Comparison in STEM textbooks


Benjamin D. Jee, Bryan J. Matlen, Nina K Simms, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018


Where do measurement units come from?


Kensy Cooperrider, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018


Analogical Abstraction in Three-Month-Olds


Erin M. Anderson, Yin-Juei Chang, Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017


Analogical gestures foster understanding of causal systems


Kensy Cooperrider, D. Gentner, S. Goldin‐Meadow

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017


Analogical Inferences in Causal Systems


Matthew Myers, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017


Analogical Processes in Children’s Understanding of Spatial Representations


Lei Yuan, D. Uttal, D. Gentner

Developmental Psychology, 2017


Analogy and Abstraction


D. Gentner, C. Hoyos

Topics in Cognitive Science, 2017


Children's spontaneous comparisons from 26 to 58 months predict performance in verbal and non-verbal analogy tests in 6th grade


Catriona Silvey, D. Gentner, L. Richland, S. Goldin‐Meadow

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017


Do Relationality and Aptness Influence Conventionalization?


Francisco Maravilla, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017


Extending SME to Handle Large-Scale Cognitive Modeling


Kenneth D. Forbus, R. W. Ferguson, A. Lovett, D. Gentner

Cognitive Sciences, 2017


Generating explanations via analogical comparison


C. Hoyos, D. Gentner

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2017


Part-whole categorization is culture-specific


Timothy J. Tilbe, J. Bohnemeyer, Gabriela Perez Baez, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017


Relational Categories are More Mutable than Entity Categories


Jennifer Asmuth, D. Gentner

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2017


Gesture reveals spatial analogies during complex relational reasoning


Kensy Cooperrider, D. Gentner, S. Goldin‐Meadow

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016


Rapid Learning in a Children's Museum via Analogical Comparison


D. Gentner, S. Levine, Raedy M. Ping, Ashley Isaia, Sonica Dhillon, C. Bradley, Garrett Honke

Cognitive Sciences, 2016


Sensitivity to Relational Similarity and Object Similarity in Apes and Children


S. Christie, D. Gentner, J. Call, D. Haun

Current Biology, 2016


Spatial analogies pervade complex relational reasoning: Evidence from spontaneous gestures


Kensy Cooperrider, D. Gentner, S. Goldin‐Meadow

Cognitive Research, 2016


Structural Alignment in Incidental Word Learning


Ruxue Shao, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016


The paradox of relational development: Could language learning be (temporarily) harmful?


C. Hoyos, Ruxue Shao, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016


Analogical comparison aids false belief understanding in preschoolers


C. Hoyos, W. Horton, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015


Analogical Processes in Language Learning


Bozena Pajak, Micah B. Goldwater, D. Gentner, Adele E. Goldberg, Ruxue Shao

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015


Prelinguistic Relational Concepts: Investigating Analogical Processing in Infants.


Alissa Ferry, Susan J. Hespos, D. Gentner

Child Development, 2015


Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society


Sven E. Kuehne, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus

2015


The specificity of the labeling effect on memory: what kinds of labels improve retrieval?


Anja Jamrozik, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015


Comparing Two Types of Spatial Alignment During Elementary Engineering Instruction


Lauren Applebaum, Gabriel Kalal, Elizabet Spaepen, D. Gentner, S. Goldin‐Meadow, S. Levine

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014


Drawing on Experience: How Domain Knowledge Is Reflected in Sketches of Scientific Structures and Processes


Benjamin D. Jee, D. Gentner, D. Uttal, B. Sageman, Kenneth D. Forbus, C. Manduca, Carol J. Ormand, T. Shipley, B. Tikoff

Research in Science Education, 2014


Effects of Comparison and Explanation on Analogical Transfer


B. Edwards, J. Williams, D. Gentner, T. Lombrozo

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014


Language Helps Children Succeed on a Classic Analogy Task


S. Christie, D. Gentner

Cognitive Sciences, 2014


Making sense of the abstract uses of the prepositions in and on


Anja Jamrozik, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014


Mechanisms of Spatial Learning: Teaching Children Geometric Categories


L. Smith, Raedy M. Ping, Bryan J. Matlen, Micah B. Goldwater, D. Gentner, S. Levine

Spatial Cognition, 2014


Modeling Learning via Progressive Alignment using Interim Generalizations


Subu Kandaswamy, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014


Relational labels: A simple way to improve the likelihood of relational retrieval


Anja Jamrozik, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014


Structure Mapping in Visual Comparison: Embodied Correspondence Lines?


Bryan J. Matlen, D. Gentner, S. Franconeri

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014


The Role of Comparison in Social Cognition


C. Hoyos, D. Gentner, Theodore Bach, A. Meltzoff, S. Christie, Valerie San Juan, Patricia A. Ganea, W. Horton

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014


The Role of Difference-Detection in Learning Contrastive Categories


L. Smith, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014


Understanding Micronesian Navigation


D. Gentner, A. Stevens

2014


Analogical Learning and Reasoning


D. Gentner, L. Smith

2013


Comparison and explanation in learning: Children's understanding of a basic engineering principle


C. Hoyos, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013


Comparison promotes learning and transfer of relational categories.


K. Kurtz, Olga Boukrina, D. Gentner

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2013


Computational and Cognitive Aspects of Narrative


Mark A. Finlayson, Bernhard Fisseni, D. Gentner, Richard Gerrig, B. Löwe, Jeffrey Loewenstein, I. Mani, J. Meister, R. Young

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013


Detecting anomalous features in complex stimuli: the role of structured comparison.


K. Kurtz, D. Gentner

Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, 2013


Effects of Brief Analogical Training after Two-Week Delay


Micah B. Goldwater, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013


Encoding time and allocation of attention in analogical development


Nina K Simms, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013


Finding faults: analogical comparison supports spatial concept learning in geoscience


Benjamin D. Jee, D. Uttal, D. Gentner, C. Manduca, T. Shipley, B. Sageman

Cognitive Processing, 2013


Introduction to the special issue on spatial learning and reasoning processes


T. Shipley, D. Gentner

Cognitive Processing, 2013


Relational labels can improve relational retrieval


Anja Jamrozik, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013


Relational words have high metaphoric potential


Anja Jamrozik, Eyal Sagi, Micah B. Goldwater, D. Gentner

2013


Relational Words Have High Metaphoric Potential Semantic Signatures for Example-based Linguistic Metaphor Detection Automatic Metaphor Detection Using Large-scale Lexical Resources and Conventional Metaphor Ex- Traction Cross-lingual Metaphor Detection Using Common Semantic Features Identifying Meta


Ekaterina Shutova, S. Argamon, J. Barnden, Gemma Boleda, Ted Briscoe, S. Clark, Anna Feldman, J. Feldman, Michael Flor, Eugenie Giesbrecht, Valia Kordoni, A. Korhonen, Mark G. Lee, Patricia Lichtenstein, James H. Martin, A. Musolff, S. Narayanan, T. Poibeau, T. Veale, Andreas Vlachos, Anja Jamrozik, Eyal Sagi, Micah B. Goldwater, Michael Mohler, D. Bracewell, Marc T. Tomlinson, David R Hinote, Y. Wilks, Adam Dalton, James F. Allen, Lucian, Dirk Hovy, Shashank Shrivastava, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Mrinmaya Sachan, Kartik Goyal, Huying Li, Whitney E. Sanders, Eduard, Ilana Heintz, Ryan Gabbard, M. Srivastava, D. Barner, Donald Black, Majorie Friedman, T. Strzalkowski, G. Broadwell, Sarah M. Taylor, L. Feldman, Samira Shaikh, Ting Liu, B. Yamrom, Kit Cho, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases, Kyle Elliot, Yulia Badryzlova, N. Shekhtman, Yekaterina Isaeva, R. Kerimov, Vii, Beata Beigman Klebanov, D. Gentner, Lucian Galescu, Yulia Tsvetkov, E. Mukomel, A. Gershman, E. Hovy, Marissa Friedman, R. Weischedel, Jonathan Dunn

2013


Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input


D. Gentner, A. Özyürek, Özge Gürcanlı, S. Goldin‐Meadow

Cognition, 2013


Structural Alignment in Young Children's Shape Categorization: Different Roles for Learning from Comparisons and Contrasts


Raedy M. Ping, Micah B. Goldwater, Bryan J. Matlen, L. Smith, S. Levine, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013


The origins of analogy


Alissa Ferry, Susan J. Hespos, Yin-Juei Chang, Emily Hollenbeck, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013


Causal Systems Categories: Differences in Novice and Expert Categorization of Causal Phenomena


Benjamin M. Rottman, D. Gentner, Micah B. Goldwater

Cognitive Sciences, 2012


Cognitive Approaches for the Semantic Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 12221)


D. Gentner, F. V. Harmelen, P. Hitzler, K. Janowicz, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Dagstuhl Reports, 2012


Development Of Language And Thought


S. Christie, D. Gentner

2012


Language and Cognition in Development


SteIIa Christie, D. Gentner

2012


New Frontiers in Computational Models of Grammatical Development


Micah B. Goldwater, Scott E Friedman, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus, C. Fisher, M. Connor, D. Roth, F. Chang, G. Dell

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012


New Frontiers in Computational Models of Grammatical Development - eScholarship


Micah B. Goldwater, Scott L. Friedman, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus, Cynthia Fisher, M. Connor, Daniel B Roth, Franklin Chang, Gary S. Dell

2012


Representational Form and Metaphorical Word Use


Anja Jamrozik, Micah B. Goldwater, Eyal Sagi, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012


The role of comparison in structure learning: Developmental, learning science, and computational perspectives


S. Christie, D. Gentner, M. Imai, Etsuko Haryu, Hiroyuki Okada, Ji Y. Son, J. Stigler, L. Doumas, R. Morrison, L. Richland

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012


Using Spatial Analogy to Facilitate Graph Learning


L. Smith, D. Gentner

Spatial Cognition, 2012


What Difference Reveals About Similarity


Eyal Sagi, D. Gentner, A. Lovett

Cognitive Sciences, 2012


Analogy and Explanation in Learning Causal System Categories


Micah B. Goldwater, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011


Computational models of analogy.


D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2011


Modeling structural priming in sentence production via analogical processes


Jason Taylor, Scott E Friedman, Micah B. Goldwater, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011


Prepositions in and on retain aspects of spatial meaning in abstract contexts


Anja Jamrozik, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011


Structural Alignment in Learning Bridge Construction


Lauren Applebaum, Elizabet Spaepen, D. Gentner, S. Levine, S. Goldin‐Meadow

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011


Structure mapping and relational language support children's learning of relational categories.


D. Gentner, F. Anggoro, Raquel S. Klibanoff

Child Development, 2011


Structure-Mapping in Metaphor Comprehension


P. Wolff, D. Gentner

Cognitive Sciences, 2011


The Development of Spatial Cognition During Childhood: Extending Understanding of Perception, Memory, Language, Maps, and Gestures


Anne R. Schutte, Heidi Fleharty, A. Hund, D. Uttal, Megan Sauter, Nina K Simms, D. Gentner

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011


Commentary: Analogical Thinking in Geoscience Education


Benjamin D. Jee, D. Uttal, D. Gentner, C. Manduca, T. Shipley, B. Tikoff, Carol J. Ormand, B. Sageman

2010


Mutual bootstrapping between language and analogical processing


D. Gentner, S. Christie

Language and Cognition, 2010


Psychology in Cognitive Science: 1978-2038


D. Gentner

Topics in Cognitive Science, 2010


The role of comparison in preschoolers' novel object categorization.


S. Graham, L. Namy, D. Gentner, K. Meagher

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010


1 ANALOGY AND MORAL DECISION MAKING


Morteza Dehghani, D. Gentner, Ken Forbus, H. Ekhtiari, Sonya S. Sachdeva

2009


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D. Gentner, Brian F. Bowdle

2009


Analogy and moral decision making


Morteza Dehghani, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus, H. Ekhtiari, Sonya S. Sachdeva

2009


Dark knowledge in qualitative reasoning: A call to arms


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

2009


Does language about similarity play a role in fostering similarity comparison in children?


Ş. Özçalışkan, S. Goldin‐Meadow, D. Gentner, Carolyn Mylander

Cognition, 2009


Drawing on Experience: Use of Sketching to Evaluate Knowledge of Spatial Scientific Concepts


Benjamin D. Jee, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus, B. Sageman, D. Uttal

2009


Effects of Language and Similarity on Comparison Processing


S. Gelman, L. Raman, D. Gentner

Language Learning and Development, 2009


Inference processes in causal analogies


Julie Colhoun, D. Gentner

2009


Modeling perceptual similarity as analogy resolves the paradox of difference detection


A. Lovett, Eyal Sagi, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus

2009


Models and Analogies in Conceptual Restructuring


T. Arabatzis, J. Clement, D. Gentner, N. Nersessian, S. Vosniadou

2009


Relational Language Helps Children Reason Analogically


D. Gentner, Nina K Simms, S. Flusberg

2009


Reviving Inert Knowledge: Analogical Abstraction Supports Relational Retrieval of Past Events


D. Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein, Leigh Thompson, Kenneth D. Forbus

Cognitive Sciences, 2009


Spatial language supports spatial cognition: Evidence from deaf homesigners [abstract]


S. Goldin‐Meadow, D. Gentner, Asli Ozyurek, Ozge Gurcanli

2009


Symposia


D. Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein, S. Christie, S. Goldin‐Meadow, Asle Ozyürek, Ozge, Gurcanli

Cognitive Processing, 2009


The role of cultural narratives in moral decision-making


Morteza Dehghani, H. Ekhtiari, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner, Sonya S. Sachdeva

2009


Using analogical mapping to simulate time-course phenomena in perceptual similarity


A. Lovett, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus, Eyal Sagi

Cognitive Systems Research, 2009


Using structural alignment to facilitate learning of spatial concepts in an informal setting


D. Gentner, S. Levine, Sonica Dhillon, Ashley Poltermann

2009


Analogy as a mechanism of comparison


A. Lovett, andrew-lovett, Eyal Sagi, D. Gentner

2008


CogSci 2008 30th Anniversary Symposia


John R. Anderson, J. McClelland, Linda B. Smith, E. Hutchins, L. Barsalou, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus, W. Bechtel, E. Newport, D. Medin

2008


CogSci 2008 30th Anniversary Symposia - eScholarship


John R. Anderson, James L. McClelland, Linda B. Smith, E. Hutchins, L. Barsalou, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus, W. Bechtel, E. Newport, D. Medin

2008


Developmental changes in children's understanding of the similarity between photographs and their referents.


D. Uttal, D. Gentner, Linda L. Liu, Alison R. Lewis

Developmental Science, 2008


Learning about Space


D. Gentner

Spatial Cognition, 2008


LEARNING ANALOGICAL REASONING


D. Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein, Joseph P. Magliano, B. H. Pillow

2008


Metaphor as structure-mapping


D. Gentner, Brian F. Bowdle

2008


Relational language supports relational cognition in humans and apes


D. Gentner, S. Christie

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2008


Activities : Peadino Skills : Teaching Guides : Teaching Techniques : * Writing Skills


Spons Agency, Pub. Date, Andee Rubin, Jill LaZansky, Philip Cohen, A. Collins, D. Gentner

2007


Auditory presentation leads to better analogical retrieval than written presentation


A. Markman, E. Taylor, D. Gentner

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2007


Comparison Facilitates Children's Learning of Names for Parts


D. Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein, Barbara Hung

2007


Conceptual centrality and the role of comparison


Jason T. Jameson, D. Gentner

2007


Development of Analogy


D. Gentner, C. Toupin

2007


Nonintentional analogical inference in text comprehension


Samuel B. Day, D. Gentner

Memory & Cognition, 2007


Spatial cognition in apes and humans


D. Gentner

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2007


Spatial language influences memory for spatial scenes


Michele I. Feist, D. Gentner

Memory & Cognition, 2007


1 Introduction : The Place of Analogy in Cognition


K. Holyoak, D. Gentner, B. Kokinov

2006


ABSTRACTION PROCESSES DURING CONCEPT LEARNING: A STRUCTURAL VIEW


Janice Skorstad, D. Gentner, D. Medin

2006


Metaphor Processing, Psychology of


D. Gentner, Brian F. Bowdle

2006


Naming motion events in Spanish and English


Paula Cifuentes-Férez, D. Gentner

2006


Relations, Objects, and the Composition of Analogies


D. Gentner, K. Kurtz

Cognitive Sciences, 2006


The Verb Mutability Effect: Noun and Verb Semantics in English and Japanese


Jennifer Asmuth, Caitlin M. Fausey, D. Gentner, Hanako Yoshida

2006


Why verbs are hard to learn


D. Gentner

2006


Clarifying the Role of Alignability in Similarity Comparisons


Jason T. Jameson, D. Gentner, Samuel B. Day, S. Christie, Julie Colhoun, Daniel M. Bartels

2005


Defining structural similarity


D. Gentner, A. Markman

2005


How to Go from Nest to Home: Children's Learning of Relational Categories


F. Anggoro, D. Gentner, Raquel S. Klimbanoff

2005


Introduction : The Place of Analogy in Cognition


K. Holyoak, D. Gentner, B. Kokinov

2005


Language and Cognition


D. Gentner, L. Gleitman, B. Landau, W. Levelt, A. Papafragou

2005


Nonintentional similarity processing


A. Markman, D. Gentner

2005


Relational language and the development of relational mapping


Jeffrey Loewenstein, D. Gentner

Cognitive Psychology, 2005


The career of metaphor.


Brian F. Bowdle, D. Gentner

Psychology Review, 2005


5 Nonintentional Similarity Processing


A. Markman, D. Gentner

2004


8 Why We ' re So Smart


D. Gentner

2004


Journal of The Cognitive Science Society


R. Goldstone, John R. Anderson, N. Chater, A. Clark, S. Edelman, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner, R. Gibbs, J. Greeno, R. Jacobs

2004


Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner, T. Regier

2004


Analogical Inference in Automatic Interpretation


Samuel B. Day, D. Gentner

2003


A Theory of Rerepresentation in Analogical Matching


Jin Yan, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

2003


Factors Involved in the Use of In and On


Michele I. Feist, D. Gentner

2003


Learning and Transfer: A General Role for Analogical Encoding


D. Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein, Leigh Thompson

2003


What makes us smart? Core knowledge and natural language


E. Spelke, D. Gentner, S. Goldin‐Meadow

2003


Why we’re so smart


D. Gentner

2003


Analogy-based reasoning and metaphor


D. Gentner, A. Markman

2002


Chapter 4 Relational Language and Relational Thought


D. Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein

2002


Exhuming similarity


D. Gentner

2002


Making a silk purse out of two sow's ears: young children's use of comparison in category learning.


L. Namy, D. Gentner

Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2002


Relational language and relational thought


D. Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein

2002


The Place of Analogy in Cognition


K. Holyoak, D. Gentner, B. Kokinov

2002


Two Forces in the Development of Relational Similarity


D. Gentner, M. J. Rattermann, A. Markman, Laura Kotovsky

2002


Convention, Form, and Figurative Language Processing


D. Gentner, Brian F. Bowdle

2001


Metaphor is like analogy


D. Gentner, Brian F. Bowdle, P. Wolff, C. Boronat

2001


Structural alignment facilitates the noticing of differences


D. Gentner, V. Gunn

Memory & Cognition, 2001


The analogical mind : perspectives from cognitive science


D. Gentner, K. Holyoak, B. Kokinov

2001


Evidence for role-neutral initial processing of metaphors.


P. Wolff, D. Gentner

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2000


Metaphor and knowledge change


D. Gentner, P. Wolff

2000


Modeling Infant Learning via Symbolic Structural Alignment


Sven E. Kuehne, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus

2000


Modeling infant learning via symbolic structural alignment - eScholarship


Sven E. Kuehne, D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus

2000


Reasoning from shared structure


S. Blok, D. Gentner

2000


SEQL: Category learning as progressive abstraction using structure mapping


Sven E. Kuehne, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

2000


Structure mapping in the comparison process.


A. Markman, D. Gentner

American Journal of Psychology, 2000


Analogical encoding facilitates knowledge transfer in negotiation


Jeffrey Loewenstein, Leigh Thompson, D. Gentner

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1999


Chapter 4 – Reasoning1


K. Kurtz, D. Gentner, V. Gunn

1999


Lessons from Analogical Reasoning in the Teaching of Negotiation


J. Gillespie, Leigh Thompson, Jeffrey Loewenstein, D. Gentner

1999


Reasoning: Handbook of Perception and Cognition


Kenneth J. Kurtz, D. Gentner, Virginia Gunn

1999


Analogy-based reasoning


D. Gentner, A. Markman

1998


Analogy just looks like high level perception: why a domain-general approach to analogical mapping is right


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner, A. Markman, R. W. Ferguson

Journal of experimental and theoretical artificial intelligence (Print), 1998


Barsalou, LW, 231


L. Bosch, S. Cappa, Nick Chater, I. Choi, J. Daléry, E. Daprati, N. Franck, D. Gentner, N. Georgieff, R. Goldstone

1998


Efforts to Encourage Multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society.


J. Greeno, W. Clancey, Clayton Lewis, Mark S. Seidenberg, S. Derry, M. Gernsbacher, P. Langley, M. Shafto, D. Gentner, A. Lesgold, C. Seifert

Cognitive Sciences, 1998


Similarity and the development of rules


D. Gentner, José Medina

Cognition, 1998


Alignment in the Processing of Metaphor


D. Gentner, P. Wolff

1997


Analogical Reasoning and Conceptual Change: A Case Study of Johannes Kepler


D. Gentner, Sarah K. Brem, R. W. Ferguson, A. Markman, Bjorn B. Levidow, P. Wolff, Kenneth D. Forbus

1997


Analogy and creativity in the works of Johannes Kepler


D. Gentner, Sarah K. Brem, R. W. Ferguson, P. Wolff, A. Markman, Kenneth D. Forbus

1997


Informativity and Asymmetry in Comparisons


Brian F. Bowdle, D. Gentner

Cognitive Psychology, 1997


On the Proper Treatment of Noun-Noun Metaphor: A Critique of the Sapper Model


R. W. Ferguson, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

1997


Qualitative Mental Models: Simulations or Memories?


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

1997


Reasoning and learning by analogy.


D. Gentner, K. Holyoak

American Psychologist, 1997


Structure mapping in analogy and similarity.


D. Gentner, A. Markman

1997


Commonalities and differences in similarity comparisons


A. Markman, D. Gentner

Memory & Cognition, 1996


Modeling Qualitative Differences in Symmetry Judgments


R. W. Ferguson, A. Aminoff, D. Gentner

1996


MAC/FAC: A Model of Similarity-Based Retrieval


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner, K. Law

Cognitive Sciences, 1995


Similarity in Language, Thought and Perception


C. Cacciari, D. Gentner

1995


MACIFAC: A Model of Si~ i~ ari~-~ s~ Retrieval


Kenneth D. Forsus, D. Gentner, L. A. W. Keith

1994


Publications received


G. Hirst, De, R. Bod, J. Hay, Stefanie Jannedy, D. Fensel, J. Hendler, H. Lieberman, W. Wahlster, D. Gentner, S. Goldin‐Meadow, Orin Hargraves, T. Joachims, Paola Merlo, S. Stevenson, J. Benjamins

International Conference on Computational Logic, 1993


Respects for similarity


D. Medin, R. Goldstone, D. Gentner

1993


Structural Alignment during Similarity Comparisons


A. Markman, D. Gentner

Cognitive Psychology, 1993


The Roles of Similarity in Transfer: Separating Retrievability From Inferential Soundness


D. Gentner, M. J. Rattermann, Kenneth D. Forbus

Cognitive Psychology, 1993


Inferential aspects and judgment under uncertainty.


A. Tversky, D. Kahneman, D. Gentner, A. Collins, Baruch Fischhoff, Stephen J. Hoch, George Loewenstein

1992


in Analogical Napping


D. Gentner

1991


Language and the career of similarity.


D. Gentner, M. J. Rattermann

1991


Relational similarity and the nonindependence of features in similarity judgments


Robert L. Goldstone, D. Medin, D. Gentner

Cognitive Psychology, 1991


Similarity-based cognitive architecture


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

SGAR, 1991


Systematicity as a Selection Constraint in Analogical Mapping


C. Clement, D. Gentner

Cognitive Sciences, 1991


A Note on "Creativity and Learning in a Case-Based Explainer"


D. Gentner, Kenneth D. Forbus

Artificial Intelligence, 1990


Semantic constraints on lexical categories


William Nagy, D. Gentner

1990


Causal reasoning about quantities


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

1989


Multiple models of evaporation processes


A. Collins, D. Gentner

1989


research. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD


I. Urbana-Champaign, D. Gentner, J. Armstrong, L. Asmussen, Gerald Arnold, Yahaya Bello, Diane Bottomley, Catherine A. Burnham, Candace Clark, M. Commeyras, John M. Consalvi, C. Currie, Irene-Anna N. Diakidoy, Robert T. Jiménez, Bonnie M. Kerr, Paul W. Kerr, K. Ohtsuka, K. Reimer, H. Shu, Anne C. Stallman, M. Waggoner, Janelle Weinzierl, P. Winsor, Delores Plowman, Debra Gough

1989


Structural Evaluation of Analogies : What Counts?


Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

1989


The Structure-Mapping Engine: Algorithm and Examples


Brian Falkenhainer, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

Artificial Intelligence, 1989


Analogical mapping during similarity judgments


M. Kaufmann, Los Altos, C. Markman, D. Gentner

1988


Transfer of training as analogical mapping


R. Schumacher, D. Gentner

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1988


Viewing Metaphor as Analogy


D. Gentner, Brian Falkenhainer, Janice Skorstad

1988


Analogical Processing: A Simulation and Empirical Corroboration


Janice Skorstad, Brian Falkenhainer, D. Gentner

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987


Metaphor: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly


D. Gentner, Bdan Faikenhain

Theoretical Issues In Natural Language Processing, 1987


Psycftol€y Depafirnent METAPHOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLYI


D. Gentner, Brian Falkenhainer, -Ken Forbus

1987


Analogical access-a good match is hard to find. 2


D. Gentner, R. Landers, Mj Ratterman

1986


Systematicity and Surface Similarity in the Development of Analogy


D. Gentner, C. Toupin

Cognitive Sciences, 1986


The Structure-Mapping Engine


Brian Falkenhainer, Kenneth D. Forbus, D. Gentner

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1986


Mental Models


D. Gentner

1983


Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy


D. Gentner

Cognitive Sciences, 1983


Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy.


D. Gentner

Cognitive Science, issue 7, 1982, pp. 155-170


Three perspectives on writing


Bertram C. Bruce, A. Collins, Ann D. Rubin, D. Gentner

1982


Studies of inference from lack of knowledge


D. Gentner, A. Collins

Memory & Cognition, 1981


A framework for a cognitive theory of writing


A. Collins, D. Gentner

1980


Problems and techniques of text-analysis


G. Green, Robert N. Kantor, J. Morgan, N. Stein, G. Hermon, R. Salzillo, M. Sellner, Bertram C. Bruce, D. Gentner, B. Webber

1980


Progress Report 3 on the BBN Group of the Center for the Study of Reading


Bertram C. Bruce, M. Adams, Philip R. Cohen, A. Collins, J. Frederiksen, D. Gentner, Andee Rubin, Edward E. Smith, B. J. Starr, Kathleen Starr, Cindy Steinberg

1980


Behold the Behemoth.


D. Gentner

1979


Language Representation: Papers presented in two sessions of TINLAP-2


D. Gentner, B. Webber

International Conference on Computational Logic, 1978


Testing The Psychological Reality of a Representational Model


D. Gentner

Theoretical Issues In Natural Language Processing, 1978


Testing the Psychological Reality of a Representation Model


D. Gentner

International Conference on Computational Logic, 1978


Playing with Words.


D. Gentner

1977


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