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January 31, 2008 | People=20

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Gentner Named Alice Gabrielle Twight = Professor

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Dedre Gentner, professor of=20 psychology and education and social policy at Northwestern = University, has=20 been named the Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor.

Her = research=20 interests are cognition and language in learning and development, = in=20 particular the processes of similarity, analogy and metaphor, and=20 acquisition of word meaning.

Gentner is director of = Northwestern=E2=80=99s=20 Cognitive Science Program, which includes more than 100 associated = faculty=20 from the disciplines of psychology, computer science, linguistics, = neuroscience, learning sciences, music, communication studies, = management=20 and organizations, anthropology and philosophy.

She is = co-principal=20 investigator of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, = which brings=20 together scientists and educators from Northwestern and Temple = University,=20 the University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania. The = center was=20 created with a $3.5 million grant from the National Science=20 Foundation.

Gentner is known for her work in analogical = reasoning=20 and structure-mapping theory, the mechanism allowing much of = experiential=20 learning to take place. With Kenneth Forbus, Northwestern = professor of=20 computer Science and education at Northwestern, Gentner = co-developed the=20 Structure-Mapping Engine, a model of analogy-making.

She = has=20 co-edited three books, =E2=80=9CLanguage in Mind: Advances in the = Study of=20 Language and Thought,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CThe Analogical = Mind,=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CMental=20 Models.=E2=80=9D

A fellow at the Center for Advanced Study = in the=20 Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 1999, Gentner was a = faculty=20 member of the University of Washington and University of Illinois = at=20 Urbana-Champaign. The author of numerous journal articles, she = joined=20 Northwestern=E2=80=99s faculty in 1990.

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