The Analogical Mind Perspectives from Cognitive Science

by Gentner, Dedre; Holyoak, Keith J.; Kokinov, Boicho N.

• ISBN13: 9780262571395
• ISBN10: 0262571390
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-02
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

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 analogy as well as their relation to computational models of other cognitive processes. The second part addresses the role of analogy in a wide range of cognitive tasks, such as forming complex cognitive structures, conveying emotion, making decisions, and solving problems. The third part looks at the development of analogy in children and the possible use of analogy in nonhuman primates. Contributors Miriam Bassok, Consuelo B. Boronat, Brian Bowdle, Fintan Costello, Kevin Dunbar, Gilles Fauconnier, Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner, Usha Goswami, Brett Gray, Graeme S. Halford, Douglas Hofstadter, Keith J. Holyoak, John E. Hummel, Mark T. Keane, Boicho N. Kokinov, Arthur B. Markman, C. Page Moreau, David L. Oden, Alexander A. Petrov, Steven Phillips, David Premack, Cameron Shelley, Paul Thagard, Roger K. R. Thompson, William H. Wilson, Phillip Wolff.

Author Biography

Dedre Gentner is Professor of Psychology and Education and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern University.

Keith J. Holyoak, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a psychologist and poet. He is the coauthor or editor of a number of books on cognitive psychology and has published three volumes of poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	xi
Introduction: The Place of Analogy in Cognition	1	(22)
Keith J. Holyoak
Dedre Gentner
Boicho N. Kokinov
Computational and Theoretical Approaches	21	(2)
Exploring Analogy in the Large	23	(36)
Kenneth D. Forbus
Integrating Memory and Reasoning in Analogy-Making: The AMBR Model	59	(66)
Boicho N. Kokinov
Alexander A. Petrov
The STAR-2 Model for Mapping Hierarchically Structured Analogs	125	(36)
William H. Wilson
Graeme S. Halford
Brett Gray
Steven Phillips
Toward an Understanding of Analogy within a Biological Symbol System	161	(38)
Keith J. Holyoak
John E. Hummel
Arenas of Analogical Thought	197	(2)
Metaphor Is Like Analogy	199	(56)
Dedre Gentner
Brian Bowdle
Phillip Wolff
Consuelo Boronat
Conceptual Blending and Analogy	255	(32)
Gilles Fauconnier
Setting Limits on Analogy: Why Conceptual Combination Is Not Structural Alignment	287	(26)
Mark T. Keane
Fintan Costello
The Analogical Paradox: Why Analogy Is so Easy in Naturalistic Settings Yet so Difficult in the Psychological Laboratory	313	(22)
Kevin Dunbar
Emotional Analogies and Analogical Inference	335	(28)
Paul Thagard
Cameron Shelley
Analogy and Analogical Comparison in Choice	363	(38)
Arthur B. Markman
C. Page Moreau
Semantic Alignments in Mathematical Word Problems	401	(36)
Miriam Bassok
Developmental and Comparative Approaches	435	(2)
Analogical Reasoning in Children	437	(34)
Usha Goswami
Can an Ape Reason Analogically? Comprehension and Production of Analogical Problems by Sarah, a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)	471	(28)
David L. Oden
Roger K. R. Thompson
David Premack
Epilogue: Analogy as the Core of Cognition	499	(40)
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Index	539