Dedre Gentner
Northwestern University
Dedre Dariel Gentner is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist. She is the Alice Gabriel Twight Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, and a leading researcher in the study of analogical reasoning.
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Dedre Dariel Gentner is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist. She is the Alice Gabriel Twight Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, and a leading researcher in the study of analogical reasoning.
Affiliation
Northwestern University
Top Publications
- Structure‐Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy* (1983) - 5,076 citations
- Structure mapping in analogy and similarity. (1997) - 1,724 citations
- The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examples (1989) - 1,465 citations
- Mental Models (1983) - 1,329 citations
- The Career of Metaphor. (2005) - 1,300 citations
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- Full name
- Dedre Gentner
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-5120-6688
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5059715106
Research interests
- Categorization, perception, and language, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Child and Animal Learning Development, Language Development and Disorders, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Most-cited linked publications
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- Structure‐Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy* ↗1983 · Cognitive Science5,076OpenAlex citations
- Structure mapping in analogy and similarity. ↗1997 · American Psychologist1,724OpenAlex citations
- The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examples ↗1989 · Artificial Intelligence1,465OpenAlex citations
- Mental Models ↗1983 ·1,329OpenAlex citations
- The Career of Metaphor. ↗2005 · Psychological Review1,300OpenAlex citations
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- Structure‐Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy* ↗1983 · Cognitive Science
- Structure mapping in analogy and similarity. ↗1997 · American Psychologist
- The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examples ↗1989 · Artificial Intelligence
- Mental Models ↗1983 ·
- The Career of Metaphor. ↗2005 · Psychological Review
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