🧑‍🔬 Dedre Gentner

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Northwestern UniversityEvanston · United States1991–2026 · 158 papersEmploymentcurrent🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States1985–1996 · 22 papersEmployment🎓Northwestern UniversityLaoag · Philippines1997–2015 · 7 papers🎓University of Illinois SystemUrbana · United States1987–1991 · 5 papers🎓Western Sydney UniversityRichmond · Australia2023 · 2 papers🎓University of California San DiegoSan Diego · United States1974Education until 1974🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States1967Education until 1967

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🎓University of ChicagoChicago · United StatesEducation

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

1990s

1980s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy (1983 · 5,142 citations)
   Gentner addresses a basic question in cognitive science: what rules do people implicitly follow when they interpret an analogy, and how does analogy differ from other kinds of comparison? The paper is a theoretical proposal.
2. The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examples (1989 · 1,487 citations)
   The paper presents the Structure-Mapping Engine (SME), a program that computationally models the mapping stage of analogy under Gentner's Structure-mapping theory.
3. MAC/FAC: A model of similarity-based retrieval (1995 · 742 citations)
   Similarity-based memory retrieval presents a puzzle. When people compare two cases side by side, they weight shared relational structure more than surface overlap. When recalling from long-term memory, however, surface resemblance tends to dominate, yet purely analogical remindings still occur occasionally.

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogyCognitive ScienceDedre Gentner1983 · 5,142 citations
2. The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examplesArtificial IntelligenceBrian Falkenhainer, Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner1989 · 1,487 citations
3. MAC/FAC: A model of similarity-based retrievalCognitive ScienceKenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner, Keith Law1995 · 742 citations
4. New Frontiers in Computational Models of Grammatical Development - eScholarship ↗Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · no summary yetMicah B. Goldwater et al.2012

🤝 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

• Kenneth D. Forbus ×2

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Cognitive Science ×2: Cognitive Science 1995, Cognitive Science 1983
• Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence 1989
• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 138 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 25 citing papers with a page here →.

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