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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2016 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2016 - David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Dedre Gentner is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and specializes in psychology with a focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research spans topics including child and animal learning development, categorization, perception, and language, visual and cognitive learning processes, language and cultural evolution, language development and disorders, language, metaphor, and cognition, and spatial cognition and navigation.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Cognitive Science, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, Instructional Science, and Cognition.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Spatial alignment facilitates visual comparison (2020), Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Analogy Generation in Science Experts and Novices (2021), Cognitive Science
  • Learning same and different relations: cross-species comparisons (2020), Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • The origins of same/different discrimination in human infants (2020), Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Analogical Comparison Promotes Theory-of-Mind Development (2020), Cognitive Science

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues including Bryan J. Matlen, Nina Simms, Susan J. Hespos, Ruxue Shao, and Erin Anderson.

Awards received by Dedre Gentner include the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition (2016), APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association (2016), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), and Fellow of the American Psychological Association (1993).

Best Publications

  • Mental Models

    Dedre Gentner

  • Structure mapping in analogy and similarity.

    Dedre Gentner;Arthur B. Markman

  • The structure-mapping engine: algorithm and examples

    Brian Falkenhainer;Kenneth D. Forbus;Dedre Gentner

  • Mechanisms of Analogical Learning.

    Dedre Gentner

  • Why Nouns are Learned Before Verbs : Linguistic Relativity versus Natural Partitioning

    Dedre Gentner

  • Respects for similarity

    Douglas L. Medin;Robert L. Goldstone;Dedre Gentner

  • The Career of Metaphor.

    Brian F. Bowdle;Dedre Gentner

  • The mechanisms of analogical learning

    Dedre Gentner

  • The analogical mind : perspectives from cognitive science

    Dedre Gentner;Keith James Holyoak;Boicho N. Kokinov

  • Learning and Transfer: A General Role for Analogical Encoding

    Dedre Gentner;Jeffrey Loewenstein;Leigh Thompson

  • Structural Alignment during Similarity Comparisons

    Arthur B. Markman;Dedre Gentner

  • The roles of similarity in transfer: separating retrievability from inferential soundness

    Dedre Gentner;Mary Jo Rattermann;Kenneth D Forbus

  • Systematicity and surface similarity in the development of analogy

    Dedre Gentner;Cecile Toupin

  • Flowing Waters or Teeming Crowds: Mental Models of Electricity.

    Dedre Gentner;Donald R Gentner

  • Individuation, relativity and early word learning

    Dedre Gentner;Lera Boroditsky

  • Metaphor as Structure Mapping: The Relational Shift.

    Dedre Gentner

  • Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought

    Dedre Gentner;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Language and the career of similarity

    Dedre Gentner;Mary Jo Rattermann

  • Metaphor is like analogy

    Dedre Gentner;Brian F. Bowdle;Phillip Wolff;Consuelo Boronat

  • Similarity and the development of rules

    Dedre Gentner;José Medina

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur B. Markman
Arthur B. Markman The University of Texas at Austin
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Susan C. Levine
Susan C. Levine University of Chicago
David H. Uttal
David H. Uttal Northwestern University
Leigh Thompson
Leigh Thompson Northwestern University
Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
Mutsumi Imai
Mutsumi Imai Keio University
Thomas F. Shipley
Thomas F. Shipley Temple University
Keith J. Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak University of California, Los Angeles
Robert L. Goldstone
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University

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