Dedre Gentner

ThinkersCognitive psychologist

Works

  • Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy, Cognitive Science, 1983

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Known for

A Northwestern University cognitive psychologist whose structure-mapping theory holds that an analogy maps a system of relations from a base domain to a target, and that people prefer mappings that preserve connected higher-order relations over shared surface features.

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