Dedre Gentner is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. Her work on structure-mapping theory was foundational for the development of the Structure Mapping Engine by Ken Forbus.

Publications

The following are in-print books by Gentner; see her home page for further publications.

• The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science by Dedre Gentner (Editor), Keith J. Holyoak (Editor), Boicho Kokinov (Editor), ISBN 0262571390
• Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought, by Dedre Gentner (Editor), Susan Goldin-Meadow (Editor), ISBN 0262571633
• Mental Models (Cognitive Science (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).), by Albert L. Stevens, Dedre Gentner, ISBN 0898592429
• Proceedings Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, by Cognitive Science Society, Kristian J. Hammond (Editor), Dedre Gentner (Editor), ISBN 0805811389

External links

• Home page at NWU

Psychologists