Authors:Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, Boicho N. Kokinov,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: science, cognitive, perspectives, mind, analogical
Number of Pages: 541
Published: 2001-03-05
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0262571390
ISBN-13: 9780262571395

Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical processing as the very core of cognition. This is the first book to span the full range of disciplines concerned with analogy. Its contributors represent cognitive, developmental, and comparative psychology; neuroscience; artificial intelligence; linguistics; and philosophy. The book is divided into three parts. The first part describes computational models of ana