Authors:Dedre Gentner, Albert Stevens,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: series, science, cognitive, models, mental
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1983-05-01
List price: $67.50
ISBN-10: 0898592429
ISBN-13: 9780898592429

This classic volume compiles and describes interdisciplinary research on the formal nature of human knowledge about the world. Three key dimensions that characterize mental models research are examined: the nature of the domain studied, the nature of the theoretical approach, and the nature of the methodology.

Authors:Dedre Gentner, Susan Goldin-Meadow,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: language, bradford, books, thought, study, mind, advances
Number of Pages: 538
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0262072432
ISBN-13: 9780262072434

The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one’s language influences how one understands the world. Thus speakers of different languages perceive the world differently. Although the last two decades have been marked by extreme skepticism concerning the possible effects of language on thought, recent

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