The analogical mind : perspectives from cognitive science / edited by Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, and Boicho N. Kokinov.

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 s...

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Other Authors: Gentner, Dedre (Editor), Holyoak, Keith James, 1950- (Editor), Kokinov, Boicho N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
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