Search Results - "GENTNER, Dedre"

Analogy and Abstraction by Gentner, Dedre, Hoyos, Christian

“…A central question in human development is how young children gain knowledge so fast. We propose that analogical generalization drives much of this early…”
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Language Helps Children Succeed on a Classic Analogy Task by Christie, Stella, Gentner, Dedre

“…Adult humans show exceptional relational ability relative to other species. In this research, we trace the development of this ability in young children. We…”
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Structure‐Mapping in Metaphor Comprehension by Wolff, Phillip, Gentner, Dedre

“…Metaphor has a double life. It can be described as a directional process in which a stable, familiar base domain provides inferential structure to a less…”
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Explanation recruits comparison in a category-learning task by Edwards, Brian J., Williams, Joseph J., Gentner, Dedre, Lombrozo, Tania

“…•Prompts to explain category membership boost discovery of broad classification rules.•Explanation prompts increase self-reported comparison of labelled…”
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Computational models of analogy by Gentner, Dedre, Forbus, Kenneth D.

“…Analogical mapping is a core process in human cognition. A number of valuable computational models of analogy have been created, capturing aspects of how…”
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Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input by Gentner, Dedre, Özyürek, Asli, Gürcanli, Özge, Goldin-Meadow, Susan

“…► Deaf children who lack linguistic input can develop their own ‘homesign’ language. ► We compared Turkish homesigners with matched hearing children on two…”
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Learning and Transfer: A General Role for Analogical Encoding by Gentner, Dedre, Loewenstein, Jeffrey, Thompson, Leigh

“…Teaching by examples and cases is widely used to promote learning, but it varies widely in its effectiveness. The authors test an adaptation to case-based…”
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Relational language and the development of relational mapping by Loewenstein, Jeffrey, Gentner, Dedre

“…We test the claim that learning and using language for spatial relations can influence spatial representation and reasoning. Preschool children were given a…”
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Reviving Inert Knowledge: Analogical Abstraction Supports Relational Retrieval of Past Events by Gentner, Dedre, Loewenstein, Jeffrey, Thompson, Leigh, Forbus, Kenneth D.

“…We present five experiments and simulation studies to establish late analogical ion as a new psychological phenomenon: Schema ion from analogical examples can…”
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Analogical Processes in Language Learning by Gentner, Dedre, Namy, Laura L.

“…The acquisition of language has long stood as a challenge to general learning accounts, leading many theorists to propose domain-specific knowledge and…”
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Relations, Objects, and the Composition of Analogies by Gentner, Dedre, Kurtz, Kenneth J.

“…This research addresses the kinds of matching elements that determine analogical relatedness and literal similarity. Despite theoretical agreement on the…”
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Language as Cognitive Tool Kit: How Language Supports Relational Thought by Gentner, Dedre

“…The extreme version of the Whorfian hypothesis-that the language we learn determines how we view the world-has been soundly rejected by linguists and…”
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Bootstrapping the Mind: Analogical Processes and Symbol Systems by Gentner, Dedre

“…Human cognition is striking in its brilliance and its adaptability. How do we get that way? How do we move from the nearly helpless state of infants to the…”
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Structure Mapping in Analogy and Similarity by Gentner, Dedre, Markman, Arthur B

“…Analogy and similarity are often assumed to be distinct psychological processes. In contrast to this position, the authors suggest that both similarity and…”
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Comparison Facilitates Children's Learning of Names for Parts by Gentner, Dedre, Loewenstein, Jeffrey, Hung, Barbara

“…Learning names for parts of objects can be challenging for children, as it requires overcoming their tendency to name whole objects. We test whether comparing…”
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Spatial analogies pervade complex relational reasoning: Evidence from spontaneous gestures by Cooperrider, Kensy, Gentner, Dedre, Goldin-Meadow, Susan

“…How do people think about complex phenomena like the behavior of ecosystems? Here we hypothesize that people reason about such relational systems in part by…”
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Comparison and Categorization in the Development of Relational Similarity by Kotovsky, Laura, Gentner, Dedre

“…4 experiments investigated the development of children's ability to recognize perceptual relational commonalities such as symmetry or monotonicity. In…”
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A cross-linguistic study of early word meaning: universal ontology and linguistic influence by Imai, Mutsumi, Gentner, Dedre

“…This research concerns how children learn the distinction between substance names and object names. Quine (1969) proposed that children learn the distinction…”
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Spatial Mapping in Preschoolers: Close Comparisons Facilitate Far Mappings by Loewenstein, Jeffrey, Gentner, Dedre

“…To test the hypothesis that comparison processes facilitate schema extraction, we studied the effect of making comparisons on 3-year-olds' ability to perform…”
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Relational labeling unlocks inert knowledge by Jamrozik, Anja, Gentner, Dedre

“…Insightful solutions often come about by recalling a relevant prior situation—one that shares the same essential relational pattern as the current problem…”
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