Dedre Dariel Gentner was born on c 1944 and is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist.
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Dedre Gentner is the Alice Gabriel Twight Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, and a leading researcher in the study of analogical reasoning.
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Dedre Gentner is a leading researcher in the study of analogical reasoning.
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Dedre Gentner developed the structure-mapping theory of analogy and similarity, which has wide application.
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Dedre Gentner coined the kind world hypothesis, claiming that superficial properties usually tell a lot about the structural features of the object: "If something looks like a tiger, it probably is a tiger".
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Dedre Gentner has contributed in developing a sophisticated model of analogy use - the manner by which new situations are dealt with through adaptation based on previous experiences or similar situation that transpired in the past.
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Dedre Gentner was awarded the 2016 Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition.
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Dedre Gentner has made important contributions to the study of verbs, mental models, similarity, language and thought, as well as word learning in children.
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Dedre Gentner has influenced the field not only through her prolific experimental work with both children and adults, but for the general theory of analogical reasoning that she developed and tested alongside students and collaborators: Structure Mapping Theory.
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Dedre Gentner received her bachelor's degree in physics from UC Berkeley during the 1970s and did graduate work in physics at the University of Chicago, before discovering the field of cognitive psychology.
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Dedre Gentner then entered the graduate program at UC San Diego working with Don Norman and David Rumelhart, receiving her PhD in 1974.
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Dedre Gentner taught at the University of Washington, served as Research Scientist at Bolt Beranek and Newman, and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining Northwestern University in 1990, her current position.
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Dedre Gentner received an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2011.
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Dedre Gentner received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 2016.
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Dedre Gentner is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, the American Association for Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Cognitive Development Society, and the Society for Experimental Psychology.
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Dedre Gentner has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, at the Rockefeller Institute in Bellagio, Italy, and at the Humboldt Foundation.
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Dedre Gentner is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.