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Hoyos, C., Horton, W. S., Simms, N. & Gentner, D. (in press). Analogical comparison promotes theory-of-mind development. To appear in Cognitive Science.
2020
Hespos, S. J., Anderson, E., Gentner, D. (2020). Structure-mapping processes enable infants’ learning across domains, including language. In J. Childers (Ed.) Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood: Learning from Multiple Exemplars (pp.79 – 104). Springer International Publishing: Cham, Switzerland.
Jamrozik, A., & Gentner, D. (2020). Relational labeling unlocks inert knowledge. Cognition, 196, 104146.
Matlen, B., Gentner, D. & Franconeri, S. (2020). Spatial alignment facilitates visual comparison. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46. 443-457.
2019
Cooperrider, K., & Gentner, D. (2019). The career of measurement. Cognition, 191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.011
Edwards, B. J., Williams, J. J., Gentner, D., & Lombrozo, T. (2019). Explanation recruits comparison: Insights from a category-learning task.Cognition, 185, 21-38.
Forbus, K., Gentner, D., Laird, J., Shultz, T., Nobandegani, A. S., & Thagard, P. (2019). How Does Current AI Stack Up Against Human Intelligence? In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 27-28). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society.
Gentner, D. (2019). Cognitive science is and should be pluralistic. Topics in Cognitive Science, 11(4), 884-891.
Gentner, D., & Asmuth, J. (2019). Metaphoric extension, relational categories, and abstraction. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(10), 1298-1307.
King, D., & Gentner, D., (2019). Polysemy and verb mutability: differing processes of semantic adjustment for verbs and nouns. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2011-2017). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society.
Shao, R., & Gentner, D., (2019). Symmetry: Low-level visual feature or abstract relation? In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2790-2796). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society.
Simms, N. K., & Gentner, D. (2019). Finding the middle: Spatial language and spatial reasoning. Cognitive Development, 50, 177-194.
2018
Anderson, E. M., Chang, Y. J., Hespos, S., & Gentner, D. (2018). Comparison within pairs promotes analogical abstraction in three-month-olds. Cognition, 176, 74-86.
Cooperrider, K., & Gentner, D. (2018). Where do measurement units come from?. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, T. Rogers, & J. Zhu (Ed.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 240-245). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Gentner, D. & Maravilla, F. (2018). Analogical reasoning. L. J. Ball & V. A. Thompson (eds.) International Handbook of Thinking & Reasoning (pp. 186-203). NY, NY: Psychology Press.
Gentner, D., Simms, N., Kurtz, K. J., Honke, G., Snoddy, S., Forbus, K. D., ... & Lyons, E. M. (2018). Relational categories: Why they�re important and how they are learned . In C. Kalish, M. Rau, T. Rogers, & J. Zhu (Ed.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 27-28). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2017
Asmuth, J., & Gentner, D. (2017). Relational categories are more mutable than entity categories. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(10), 2007-2025. doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1219752
Anderson, E. M., Chang, Y.-J., Hespos, S. J., & Gentner, D. (2017). Analogical abstraction in three-month-olds. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink & E. Davelaar (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 1544-1549). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Cooperrider, K., Gentner, D. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2017). Analogical gestures foster understanding of causal systems. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink & E. Davelaar (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 240-245). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Forbus, K. D., Ferguson, R. W., Lovett, A., & Gentner, D. (2017). Extending SME to handle large-scale cognitive modeling. Cognitive Science, 41. 1152-1201
Forbus, K. D., & Gentner, D. (2017). Evidence from machines that learn and think like people. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40.
Gentner, D. & Hoyos, C. (2017). Analogy & abstraction. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(3), 672-693.
Hoyos, C., & Gentner, D. (2017). Generating explanations via analogical comparison. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24. 1364-1374.
Myers, M. & Gentner, D. (2017). Analogical inferences in causal systems. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink & E. Davelaar (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 835-840). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Silvey, C., Gentner, D., Richland, L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2017). Children�s specific comparisons from 26 to 58 months predict performance in verbal and non-verbal analogy tests in 6th grade. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink & E. Davelaar (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 1072-1077). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Tilbe, T. J., Bohnemeyer, J., B�ez, G. P., & Gentner, D. (2017). Part-whole categorization culture specific. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink & E. Davelaar (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 3332-3337). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Yuan, L., Uttal, D., & Gentner, D. (2017). Analogical processes in children�s understanding of spatial representations. To appear in Developmental Psychology, 1098-1114
2016
Christie, S., Gentner, D., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2016). Sensitivity to relational similarity and object similarity in apes and children. Current Biology, 26(4), 531-535.
Cooperrider, K., Gentner, D., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2016). Gesture reveals spatial analogies during complex relational reasoning. D. Grodner, D. Mirman, A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, J. Novick, S. Arunachalam, S. Christie, & C. Norris (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 99. 692-697. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Cooperrider, K., Gentner, D., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2016). Spatial analogies pervade complex relational reasoning: Evidence from spontaneous gestures. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. DOI: 10.1186/s41235-016-0024-5
Gentner, D. (2016). Language as cognitive toolkit: How language supports relational thought. American Psychologist. 71(8):650-657.
Gentner, D., Levine, S. C., Dhillon, S., Ping, R., Bradley, C., Isaia, A., & Honke, G. (2016). Rapid learning in a children�s museum via analogical comparison. Cognitive Science. 40(1), 224-240. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12248
Hoyos, C., Shao, R., & Gentner, D. (2016). The paradox of relational development: Could language learning be (temporarily) harmful? D. Grodner, D. Mirman, A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, J. Novick, S. Arunachalam, S. Christie, & C. Norris (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Shao, R., & Gentner, D. (2016). Structural alignment in incidental word learning. D. Grodner, D. Mirman, A. Papafragou, J. Trueswell, J. Novick, S. Arunachalam, S. Christie, & C. Norris (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1038-1043. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2015
Ferry, A. L., Hespos, S. J., & Gentner, D. (2015). Prelinguistic relational concepts: Investigating analogical processing in infants. Child Development, 86. 1386-1405.
Gentner, D. & Anggoro, F. (2015). Comparison as a route to insight. Riabilitazione Neurocognitiva Quadrimestrale di Scienze del Recupero, pp. 105-112. Vicenza, Italy: Centro Studi di Riabilitazione Neurocognitiva.
Goldwater, M., Pajak, B., Gentner, D., & Shao, R. (2015). Analogical processes in language learning. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 27 - 28). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Goldwater, M. B., & Gentner, D. (2015). On the acquisition of abstract knowledge: Structural alignment and explication in learning causal system categories. Cognition, 137, 137-153.
Hoyos, C., Horton, W. S., & Gentner, D. (2015). Analogical comparison aids false belief understanding in preschoolers. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1 � 6). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Jamrozik, A. & Gentner, D. (2015). Well-hidden regularities: Abstract uses of in and on retain an aspect of their spatial meaning. Cognitive Science, 39. 1881-1911.
2014
Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2014). Language helps children succeed on a classic analogy task. Cognitive Science, 38.383-397
Edwards, B. J., Williams, J. J., Gentner, D., & Lombrozo, T. (2014). Effects of comparison and explanation on analogical transfer. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 445-450). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Jamrozik, A., & Gentner, D. (2014). Making sense of the abstract uses of the prepositions in and on. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B.
Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2411-2416). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science
Society.
Jee, B., Gentner, D., Uttal, D., Sageman, B., Forbus, K., Manduca, C., Ormand, C., Shipley, T., & Tikoff, B. (2014). Drawing on experience: How domain knowledge is reflected in sketches of scientific structures and processes. Research in Science Education. 44(6), 859-883. DOI 10.1007/s11165-014-9405-2.
Kandaswamy, S., Forbus, K., & Gentner, D. (2014). Modeling learning via progressive alignment using interim generalizations. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2471-2476). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
�z�aliskan, S., Gentner, D., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2013). Do iconic gestures pave the way for children's early verbs? Applied Psycholinguistics, 35, 1143-1162.
Smith, L. A., & Gentner, D. (2014). The role of difference-detection in learning contrastive categories. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1473-1478). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2013
Gentner, D., �zy�rek, A., Gurcanli, O., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2013). Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input. Cognition, 127(3), 318-330.
Gentner, D., & Smith, L. A. (2013). Analogical learning and reasoning. In D. Reisberg (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of Cognitive Psychology (pp. 668-681). New York, NY: Oxford University
Press.
Jamrozik, A., & Gentner, D. (2013). Relational labels can improve relational retrieval. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N.
Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
651-656). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Jamrozik, A., Sagi, E., Goldwater, M., & Gentner, D. (2013). Relational words have high metaphoric potential. In E. Shutova, B. Beigman Klebanov, J. Tetreault, & Z. Kozareva (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, First Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (pp. 21- 26). Atlanta, Georgia: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Jee, B., Uttal, D., Gentner, D., Manduca, C., Shipley, T., & Sageman, B. (2013). Finding faults: analogical comparison supports spatial concept learning in geoscience. Cognitive Processing, 14(2), 175-187.
Kurtz, K. J., Boukrina, O., & Gentner, D. (2013). Comparison promotes learning and transfer of relational categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(4), 1303-1310.
Kurtz, K. J., & Gentner, D. (2013). Detecting anomalous features in complex stimuli: The role of structured comparison. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 19(3), 219-232.
Shipley, T. F., & Gentner, D. (2013). Introduction to the special issue on spatial learning and reasoning processes. Cognitive Processing, 14(2), 103-104.
2012
Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2012). Language and cognition in development. In M. M. Spivey, K. McRae, & M. Joanisse (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 653-673.
Feist, M. I., & Gentner, D. (2012). Multiple influences on the use of English spatial prepositions: The case of 'in'� and 'on'. In C. Boonthum-Denecke, P. M. McCarthy, & T. A. Lamkin (Eds.) Cross-disciplinary advances in applied natural language processing: Issues and approaches. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. 305-323.
Gentner, D. & Smith, L. (2012). Analogical reasoning. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2nd Ed.). pp. 130-136. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Rottman, B. M., Gentner, D. & Goldwater, M. B. (2012). Causal systems categories: Differences in novice and expert categorization of causal phenomena. Cognitive Science.
Sagi, E., Gentner, D., & Lovett, A. (2012). What difference reveals about similarity. Cognitive Science, 36(6), 1019-1050.
Smith, L.A. & Gentner, D. (2012). Using spatial analogy to facilitate graph learning. Spatial Cognition VIII, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7463, (pp. 196-209). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
2011
Gentner, D. (2011). Metaphors for mind. In T. Luhrman (Ed.) Toward an anthropological theory of mind. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 36(4), 48-49.
Gentner, D., Anggoro, F. K., & Klibanoff, R. S. (2011). Structure-mapping and relational language support children's learning of relational categories. Child Development, 82(4). 1173-1188.
Gentner, D., & Forbus, K. (2011). Computational
models of analogy. WIREs Cognitive Science, 2. 266-276.
Gentner, D. & Simms, N. (2011). Language and analogy in conceptual change. In Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(3). 128-129.
Jamrozik, A., & Gentner, D. (2011). Prepositions in and on retain aspects of spatial meaning in abstract contexts. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1589-1594). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (2011). Structure-mapping in metaphor comprehension. Cognitive Science, 35. 1456-1488.
2010
Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2010). Where
hypotheses come from: Learning new relations by structural alignment. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11 (3). 356-373. (Note: This paper was selected for the Journal of Cognition and Development's Editor's Choice Award for 2010)
Gentner, D. (2010). Bootstrapping the mind: Analogical processes and symbol systems. Cognitive Science, 34 (5). 752-775.
Gentner, D. (2010). Psychology
in Cognitive Science: 1978 to 2038. Topics in Cognitive
Science, 2. 328-344.
Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2010). Mutual
bootstrapping between language and analogical processing. Language
and Cognition, 2(2). 261-283.
Gentner, D. & Jee, B. (2010). De l'alchimie aux sciences
moderns: Du don usage de la pensées analogique. Sciences
Humaines, 215, 40-43.
Gentner, D., & Colhoun, J. (2010). Analogical
processes in human thinking and learning. In B. Glatzeder, V. Goel, & A. von Müller (Vol. Eds.), On Thinking: Vol. 2. Towards a Theory of Thinking, pp 35-48. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Graham, S., A., Namy, L. L., Gentner, D., & Meagher, K. (2010) The role of
comparison in preschoolers' novel object categorization. Journal
of Experimental Child Psychology, 107. 280-290.
Jee, B. D., Uttal, D. H., Gentner, D., Manduca, C., Shipley, T., Sageman, B., Ormand, C. J., & Tikoff, B. (2010). Analogical
thinking in geoscience education. Journal of Geoscience Education, 58 (1), 2-13.
Smith, L.A. & Gentner, D. (2010). Structural constraints and real-world plausibility in analogical inference. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 712-717). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Smith, L.A. & Gentner, D. (2010). The use of qualitative principles to promote understanding of systems. In J. de Kleer & K. Forbus (Eds.) Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, pp. 72-76. Portland, OR.
2009
Colhoun, J., & Gentner, D. (2009). Inference
processes in causal analogies. In B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak &
D. Gentner (Eds.) Proceedings of the Second International Conference
on Analogy. NBU Press, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Dehghani, M., Gentner, D., Forbus, K., Ekhtiari, H., & Sachdeva,
S., (2009) Analogy
and moral decision making. In B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak & D.
Gentner (Eds.) Proceedings of the Second International Conference
on Analogy. NBU Press, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Dehghani, M., Sachdeva, S., Ekhtiari, H., Gentner, D., & Forbus,
K. (2009). The role of cultural
narratives in moral decision making. In N.A. Taatgen & H.
van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
Gelman, S., Raman, L., & Gentner, D. (2009). Effects
of language and similarity on comparison processing. Language
Learning and Development, 5, 147-171.
Gentner, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2009). Early
acquisition of nouns and verbs: Evidence from Navajo. In V.
Gathercole (Ed.) Routes to Language: Studies in honor of Melissa
Bowerman, 5-36. Taylor & Francis, New York, NY.
Gentner, D., Levine, S., Dhillon, S., & Poltermann, A. (2009).
Using
structural alignment to facilitate learning of spatial concepts
in an informal setting. In B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak & D. Gentner
(Eds.) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Analogy. NBU Press, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Gentner, D., & Bowerman, M. (2009). Why
some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others:
The Typological Prevalence hypothesis. In J. Guo, E. Lieven,
S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig, S. �z�aliskan, & K. Nakamura
(eds.). Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language:
Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin. (pp. 465-480).
NY, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., Thompson, L., & Forbus, K. (2009)
Reviving
inert knowledge: Analogical abstraction supports relational retrieval
of past events. Cognitive Science, 33, 1343-1382.
Gentner, D., Simms, N., & Flusberg, S. (2009).
Relational language helps children reason analogically. In N.A.
Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science
Society.
Ozcaliskan, S., Goldin-Meadow, S., Gentner, D. & Mylander,
C. (2009). Does
language about similarity play a role in fostering similarity comparison
in children? Cognition, 112. 217-228.
Lovett, A., Gentner, D., Forbus, K., & Sagi, E. (2009). Using
analogical mapping to simulate time-course phenomena in perceptual
similarity. Cognitive Systems Research, 10. 216-228.
Gelman, S., Raman, L., & Gentner, D. (2009). Effects
of language and similarity on comparison processing. Language
Learning and Development, 5. 147-171.
2008
Gentner, D., & Asmuth, J. (2008). Can relationality be distinguished
from abstractness in noun mutability? In B. C. Love, K. McRae, &
V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 863-868). Austin, TX:
Cognitive Science Society.
Colhoun, J., Gentner, D., & Loewenstein, J. (2008). Learning
abstract principles through principle-case comparison. In B. C.
Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of
the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(pp. 1659-1664). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Jameson, J., & Gentner, D. (2008). Causal
status and explanatory goodness in categorization. In B. C.
Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of
the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(pp. 291-296). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Gentner, D., & Bowdle, B. (2008) Metaphor
as structure-mapping. In R. Gibbs (Ed.) The Cambridge Handbook
of Metaphor and Thought (pp. 109-128). New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press.
Simms, N., & Gentner, D. (2008). Spatial language and landmark
use: Can 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds find the middle? In B. C. Love,
K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 191-196).
Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2008). Relational
language supports relational cognition in humans and apes: A response
to Penn, Holyoak & Povinelli. Behaviorial and Brain
Sciences, 31. 137-183.
Uttal, D. H., Gentner, G., Liu, L. L., & Lewis, A. R. (2008).
Developmental changes
in children's understanding of the similarity between photographs
and their referents. Developmental Science.
2007
Mussweiler, T. & Gentner, D. (2007). On
apples and oranges: Structural alignment in the selection of social
comparison standards. Journal of Cognitive Science,
8. 1-38.
Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2007). Relational similarity in
identity relation: The role of language. In Vosniadou, S. &
Kayser, D. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive
Science Conference.
Day, S. & Gentner, D. (2007). Nonintentional
analogical inference in text comprehension. Memory and Cognition,
35, 39-49.
Gentner, D. (2007). Spatial cognition
in apes and humans. TRENDS in Cognitive Science, 11.
192-194.
Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2007). Learning new relations via
structural alignment. In Vosniadou, S. & Kayser, D. (Eds.).
Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference.
Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., & Hung, B. (2007). Comparison
facilitates children's learning of names for parts. Journal
of Cognition and Development, 8. 285-307.
Markman, A. B., Taylor, E. & Gentner, D. (2007). Auditory
presentation leads to better analogical retrieval than written presentation.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14. 1101-1106.
2006
Fausey, C., M., Gentner, D., Asmuth, J., & Yoshida, H. (2006)
The verb mutability effect: Noun
and verb semantics in English and Japanese. In R. Sun &
N. Miyake (Eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting
of the Cognitive Science Society.
Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2006). Using
numbers to structure space. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.).
Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society.
Gentner, D., & Kurtz, K. (2006). Relations,
objects, and the composition of analogies. Cognitive Science,
30, 609-642.
Gentner, D. & Markman, A. B. (2006). Defining
structural similarity. The Journal of Cognitive Science,
6, 1-20.
Gentner, D. & Namy, L. L. (2006). Analogical
processes in language learning. Current Directions in Psychological
Science, 15(6), 297-301.
Gentner, D., & Sagi, E. (2006). Does
'different' imply a difference? A comparison of two
tasks. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.). Proceedings of
the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Lovett, A., Gentner, D. & Forbus, K. (2006). Simulating
time-course phenomena in perceptual similarity via incremental encoding.
In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2005
Anggoro, F., Gentner, D., & Klibanoff, R. (2005). How
to go from nest to home: Children's learning of relational
categories. Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting
of the Cognitive Science Society, 133-138.
Asmuth, J. & Gentner, D. (2005) Context
sensitivity of relational nouns. Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 163-168.
Bowdle, B., & Gentner, D. (2005). The
career of metaphor. Psychological Review, 112(1), 193-216.
Gentner, D. (2005). The development
of relational category knowledge. In L. Gershkoff-Stowe &
D. H. Rakison, (Eds.), Building object categories in developmental
time. (pp. 245-275). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Gentner, D., & Kurtz, K. (2005). Relational
categories. In W. K. Ahn, R. L. Goldstone, B. C. Love, A. B.
Markman & P. W. Wolff (Eds.), Categorization inside and
outside the lab. (pp. 151-175). Washington, DC: APA.
Jameson, J. Gentner, D., Day, S., Christie, S. Colhoun, J. &
Bartels, D. (2005) Clarifying
the role of alignability in similarity comparisons. Proceedings
of the Twenty-Seventh Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,
1048-1053.
Loewenstein, J., & Gentner, D. (2005). Relational
language and the development of relational mapping. Cognitive
Psychology, 50, 315-353.
Markman, A. B., & Gentner, D. (2005). Nonintentional
similarity processing. In T. Hassin, J,. Bargh and J. Uleman
(Eds.), The new unconscious (pp. 107-137). New York: Oxford
University Press.
Perrott, D. A., Gentner, D., & Bodenhausen, G V. (2005). Resistance
is futile: The unwitting insertion of analogical inferences in memory.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12. 696-702.
Yeh, D. & Gentner, D. (2005). Reasoning
counterfactually in Chinese: Picking up the pieces. Proceedings
of the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,
2410-2415.
2004
Anggoro, F., & Gentner, D. (2004). Cross-linguistic
semantic differences influence recognition of pictures. Proceedings
of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Gentner, D., & Namy, L. L. (2004). The
role of comparison in children's early word learning. In D.
G. Hall & S. R. Waxman (Eds.), Weaving a lexicon (pp.
533-568). Cambridge: MIT Press.
Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., & Thompson, L. (2004). Analogical
encoding: Facilitating knowledge transfer and integration. Proceedings
of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2003
Anggoro, F., & Gentner, D. (2003). Sex
and seniority: The effects of linguistic categories on conceptual
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Kurtz, K. J., Miao, C., & Gentner, D. (2001). Learning
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Loewenstein, J., & Gentner, D. (2001). Spatial
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Kuehne, S. E., Gentner, D. & Forbus, K. D. (2000). Modeling
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Markman, A. B., & Gentner, D. (2000). Structure-mapping
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Thompson, L., Gentner, D., & Loewenstein, J. (2000). Avoiding
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1999
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Gentner, D. & Brem, S. (1999). Is
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1998
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Wu, M., & Gentner, D. (1998). Structure
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1997
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Ferguson, R. W., Forbus, K. D., & Gentner, D. (1997). On
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Forbus, K. D., Gentner, D., Everett, J. O., & Wu, M. (1997).
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B., & Forbus, K. D. (1997). Analogy
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Gentner, D., & Medina, J. (1997). Comparison
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Gentner, D., & Whitley, E. W. (1997). Mental
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Gentner, D., & Wolff, P. (1997). Alignment
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Markman, A. B., & Gentner, D. (1997). The
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1996
Ferguson, R. W., Aminoff, A., & Gentner, D. (1996). Modeling
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of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
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Gentner, D., & Markman, A. B. (1996). [Review of the book Mental
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Kotovsky, L., & Gentner, D. (1996). Comparison
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Markman, A. B., & Gentner, D. (1996). Commonalities
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1995
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1994
Forbus, K. D., Ferguson, R. W., & Gentner, D. (1994). Incremental
structure-mapping. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society, 313-318.
Gentner, D., & Bowdle, B. F. (1994). The
coherence imbalance hypothesis: A functional approach to asymmetry
in comparison. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society, 351-356.
Gentner, D., & Markman, A. B. (1994). Structural
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Law, K., Forbus, K. D., & Gentner, D. (1994). Simulating
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Science Society, 543-548.
1993
Gentner, D., & Jeziorski, M. (1993). The
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Imai, M., & Gentner, D. (1993). Linguistic
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object/substance distinction. Proceedings of the Chicago
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Markman, A. B., & Gentner, D. (1993a). All
differences are not created equal: A structural alignment view of
similarity. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society, 682-686.
Markman, A. B., & Gentner, D. (1993b). Splitting
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1992
Gentner, D. (1992). Commentary on Halford's theory of cognitive
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Gentner, D., & Imai, M. (1992). Is
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space-time metaphors. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 510-515.
Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (1992). The
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Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
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1991
Clement, C. A., & Gentner, D. (1991). Systematicity
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Gentner, D., & Forbus, K. D. (1991). MAC/FAC:
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Goldstone, R. L., Medin, D. L., & Gentner, D. (1991). Relational
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Markman, A. B., & Gentner, D. (1991). Commonalities, differences
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1990
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analogical mapping task. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 22-29. Hillsdale,
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1989
Falkenhainer, B., Forbus, K. D., & Gentner, D. (1989). The
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Forbus, K. D., & Gentner, D. (1989). Structural
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Gentner, D. (1989). The mechanisms
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Goldstone, R. L., Gentner, D., & Medin, D. L. (1989). Relations
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of the Cognitive Science Society, 131-138.
1988
Clement, C. A., & Gentner, D. (1988). Systematicity
as a selection constraint in analogical mapping. Proceedings
of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
412-418.
Gentner, D. (1988). Cognitive
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Skorstad, J., Gentner, D., & Medin, D. (1988). Abstraction
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1987
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1986
Falkenhainer, B., Forbus, K. D., & Gentner, D. (1986). The
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the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 272-277.
Forbus, K. D., & Gentner, D. (1986a). Causal
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Gentner, D., & Schumacher, R. M. (1986). Use
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1985
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Gentner, D., & Toupin, C. (1985). Cross-mapped
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1984
Tenney, Y. J., & Gentner, D. (1984). What makes analogies accessible:
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of the International Workshop on Research Concerning Students' Knowledge
of Electricity, Ludwigsburg, Germany.
1983
Collins, A., & Gentner, D. (1983). Multiple models of evaporation
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1982
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1981
Gentner, D. (1981a). Generative
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1977
Gentner, D. (1977a). Children's
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Gentner, D. (1977b). If a tree
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2006
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2003
Feist, M. I., & Gentner, D. (2003). Factors
involved in the use of in and on. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 390-395.
2001
Feist, M. I., & Gentner, D. (2001). An
influence of spatial language on recognition memory for spatial
scenes. Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society, 279-284.
Gentner, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2001). Individuation,
relativity and early word learning. In M. Bowerman & S.
Levinson (Eds.), Language acquisition and conceptual development
(pp. 215-256). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
1997
Imai, M., & Gentner, D. (1997). A
crosslinguistic study of early word meaning: Universal ontology
and linguistic influence. Cognition, 62, 169-200.
1995
Gentner, D., & Imai, M. (1995). A further examination of the
shape bias in early word learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth
Annual Child Language Research Forum, 167-176.
1994
Imai, M., Gentner, D., & Uchida, N. (1994). Children's
theories of word meaning: The role of shape similarity in early
acquisition. Cognitive Development, 9, 45-75.
1991
Gentner, D., & Rattermann, M. J. (1991). Language
and the career of similarity. In S. A. Gelman & J. P. Byrnes
(Eds.), Perspectives on thought and language: Interrelations
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Wisniewski, E. J., & Gentner, D. (1991). On
the combinatorial semantics of noun pairs: Minor and major adjustments
to meaning. In G. B. Simpson (Ed.), Understanding word and
sentence (pp. 241-284). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
1990
Nagy, W., & Gentner, D. (1990). Semantic
constraints on lexical categories. Language and Cognitive
Processes, 5, 169-201.
1988
Gentner, D., & France, I. M. (1988). The
verb mutability effect: Studies of the combinatorial semantics of
nouns and verbs. In S. L. Small, G. W. Cottrell, & M. K.
Tanenhaus (Eds.), Lexical ambiguity resolution: Perspectives
from psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence
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1982
Gentner, D. (1982b). Why nouns are
learned before verbs: Linguistic relativity versus natural partitioning.
In S. A. Kuczaj (Ed.), Language development: Vol. 2. Language,
thought and culture (pp. 301-334). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
1981
Gentner, D. (1981b). Integrating
verb meanings into context. Discourse Processes, 4,
349-375.
Gentner, D. (1981c). Some interesting
differences between verbs and nouns. Cognition and Brain
Theory, 4, 161-178.
Gentner, D. (1981d). Verb semantic
structures in memory for sentences: Evidence for componential representation.
Cognitive Psychology, 13, 56-83.
1979
Gentner, D., & Loftus, E. F. (1979). Integration
of verbal and visual information as evidenced by distortions in
picture memory. American Journal of Psychology, 92,
363-375.
1978
Gentner, D. (1978a). On relational
meaning: The acquisition of verb meaning. Child Development,
49, 988-998.
Gentner, D. (1978b). A study of
early word meaning using artificial objects: What looks like a jiggy
but acts like a zimbo? Papers and Reports on Child Language
Development, 15, 1-6, Stanford University. (Reprinted in J. Gardner
(Ed.), Readings in developmental psychology, (2nd ed.,
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model. Proceedings of Theoretical Issues in Natural Language
Processing (Vol. 2, pp. 1-7). University of Illinois: Association
for Computing Machinery.
1975
Gentner, D. (1975). Evidence for the
psychological reality of semantic components: The verbs of possession.
In D. A. Norman, D. E. Rumelhart, & the LNR Research Group (Eds.),
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Gentner, D. (1975). Validation of a related-component model of
verb meaning. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development,
10, 69-79.
Other
1982
Bruce, B. C., Collins, A., Rubin, A., & Gentner, D. (1982).
Three perspectives on writing. Educational Psychologist,
17, 131-145.
1980
Collins, A., & Gentner, D. (1980). A framework for a cognitive
theory of writing. In L. W. Gregg & E. Steinberg (Eds.), Cognitive
processes in writing: An interdisciplinary approach (pp. 51-72).
Hillsdale, NJ: LEA.
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