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Mental leaps : analogy in creative thought / Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holyoak, Keith James, 1950- author.
- Thagard, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Analogy.
- Creative thinking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations, map
- Other Title:
- MIT Press CogNet.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1995]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Analogy - recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones - can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. In Mental Leaps, two leading cognitive scientists show how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively. Keith Holyoak and Paul Thagard provide a unified, comprehensive account of the diverse operations and applications of analogy, including problem solving, decision making, explanation, and communication. They present their own theory of analogy, considering its implications for cognitive science in general, and survey examples from many other domains.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Holyoak, Keith James, 1950- Mental leaps.
- ISBN:
- 9780262275620
- 0262275627
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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