- Keith Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak is a leading researcher in
cognitive psychology andcognitive science , working on human thinking and reasoning. Holyoak pioneered modern psychological work on the role ofanalogy in thinking. His work showed how analogy can be used to enhance learning of new abstract concepts by both children and adults, as well as how reasoning breaks down in cases of brain damage.Biography
Holyoak was born in
British Columbia ,Canada , in 1950. He received his B.A. in Psychology from theUniversity of British Columbia in 1971, and his PhD in Psychology fromStanford University in 1976. He was on the faculty of theUniversity of Michigan from 1976-1986, and then joined the faculty of theUniversity of California, Los Angeles , where he is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology. Holyoak received a fellowship from theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1992, and aJames McKeen Cattell Fellowship in 1999. He is a Fellow of theAssociation for Psychological Science , theCognitive Science Society , and of theSociety for Experimental Psychology . He served as Chair of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society (1994-95) and Editor of the journal "Cognitive Psychology" (1995-99).Books
Holyoak's books include:
* Holland, J.H., Holyoak, K.J., Nisbett, R.E., & Thagard, P. (1986). [http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262580969 Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery] . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-58096-9.
* Holyoak, K.J., & Thagard, P. (1995). [http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262581442 Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought.] Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-58144-2.
* Gentner, D., Holyoak, K.J., & Kokinov, B. (Eds.) (2001). [http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262571390 The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science.] Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-57139-0
* Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (Eds.) (2005). [http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521531012 The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning.] Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-53101-2External links
* [http://www.psych.ucla.edu/Faculty/faculty.php?id=46&area=3/ Keith Holyoak's UCLA home page]
* [http://www.keithholyoak.com/ Keith Holyoak's Poetry home page]
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