Dedre Gentner

Dedre Gentner, the Twight Professor of Psychology and Education at Northwestern University, is a leading researcher in cognition and learning. Her structure-mapping theory of analogical processing has been highly influential in research on analogy and on learning and transfer. The theory has been successfully applied in a broad range of arenas, from children’s learning to scientific discovery. Much of her current work explores the use of structure-mapping processes in spatial learning and cognition.

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