Professor
Dedre Gentner
Northwestern University
Psychologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Psychological Sciences
Elected
2004
Professor of Psychology. Research has focused on analogy and similarity in learning and reasoning. Structure-mapping theory led to insights on the role of relations in conceptual processing and to a computational model of similarity. Contributions include work on mental models and on the development of cognition and language.
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