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March 2001
6 x 9, 520 pp., 55 illus.
$48.00/£35.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-57139-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-57139-5

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Cloth (2001)
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Bradford Books
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The Analogical Mind
Perspectives from Cognitive Science
Edited by Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak and Boicho K. Kokinov

Preface
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Contributors
1Introduction: The Place of Analogy in Cognition
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IComputational and Theoretical Approaches
2Exploring Analogy in the Large
3Integrating Memory and Reasoning in Analogy-Making: The AMBR Model
4The STAR-2 Model for Mapping Hierarchically Structured Analogs
5Toward an Understanding of Analogy within a Biological Symbol System
IIArena of Analogical Thought
6Metaphor is like Analogy
7Conceptual Blending and Analogy
8Setting Limits on Analogy: Why Conceptual Combination Is Not Structural Alignment
9The Analogical Paradox: Why Analogy Is So Easy in Naturalistic Setting Yet So Difficult in the Psychological Laboratory
10Emotional Analogies and Analogical Inference
11Analogy and Analogical Comparison in Choice
12Semantic Alignments in Mathematical Word Problems
IIIDevelopmental and Comparative Approaches
13Analogical Reasoning in Children
14Can an Ape Reason Analogically? Comprehension and Production of Analogical Problems by Sarah, a Chimpanzee
15Epilogue: Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Index
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