Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Learning and Thinking; Analogy, Similarity and Metaphor; Concepts and Conceptual Structure; Language and Cognition; Language Acquisition; Cross-linguistic Studies.
Education/Academic qualification
Psychology, PhD, University of California, San Diego
… → 1974
Physics, BA, University of California, Berkeley
… → 1967
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Grants 2001 2021
Exploring the Spatial Alignment Hypothesis in STEM Learning Environments
WestEd, Institute of Education Sciences
8/1/17 → 7/31/21
Project: Research project
learning environment
university teacher
visualization
student
education
Investigating the Origin and Development of Analogical Processing
7/1/14 → 6/30/18
Project: Research project
infant
language
ability
learning
learning prerequisite
An Analogical Approach to Autonomy and Social Inference in a Cognitive Architecture
9/1/13 → 8/31/19
Project: Research project
Symbolic Supercomputer for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Modeling Research
Forbus, K. D., Gentner, D. & Hinrichs, T. R.
6/15/12 → 6/14/14
Project: Research project
Gentner: SILC: Research
Temple University, National Science Foundation
10/1/11 → 9/30/18
Project: Research project
Research Output 1975 2019
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Cognitive Science Is and Should Be Pluralistic
Gentner, D., Oct 1 2019, In : Topics in Cognitive Science. 11, 4, p. 884-891 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Cognitive Science
science
Publications
psychology
Psychology
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Explanation recruits comparison in a category-learning task
Edwards, B. J., Williams, J. J., Gentner, D. & Lombrozo, T., Apr 1 2019, In : Cognition. 185, p. 21-38 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Learning
learning
experiment
Self Report
Category Learning
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Finding the middle: Spatial language and spatial reasoning
Simms, N. K. & Gentner, D., Apr 1 2019, In : Cognitive Development. 50, p. 177-194 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Language
Learning
5
Citations
(Scopus)
Metaphoric extension, relational categories, and abstraction
Gentner, D. & Asmuth, J., Nov 26 2019, In : Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 34, 10, p. 1298-1307 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
abstraction
Language
Linguistics
Neurosciences
Cognition
The career of measurement
Cooperrider, K. & Gentner, D., Oct 1 2019, In : Cognition. 191, 103942.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
dictionary
career
Intuition
intuition
Artifacts