Keith Holyoak

ThinkersBorn 1950Cognitive psychologist

Works

  • Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought, MIT Press; with Paul Thagard, 1995

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A UCLA cognitive scientist who studies analogy in reasoning. With Paul Thagard he holds that analogy is guided by three constraints at once: similarity, structure, and purpose.

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