The Analogical Mind
Subtitle: Perspectives from Cognitive Science
Contributors: Dedre Gentner (Editor); Keith J. Holyoak (Editor); Boicho N. Kokinov (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press; A Bradford Book; MIT Press
Published: February 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780262072069
Subjects: Reasoning; Cognitive Psychology; Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Logic; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Analogy; Cognition; Congresses; Similarity (Psychology); Symbolism (Psychology)
Description: 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.