Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought

by Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard

Book Overview

Analogy - recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones - is a mental tool that everyone uses. Analogy 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262082330
• ISBN13: 9780262082334
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"