Dedre Gentner, the Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Gentner is associate director of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center and a faculty affiliate of the Qualitative Reasoning Group at Northwestern. She also served as director of the Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern from 1990 to 2007.
Gentner’s research interests include the following: Learning and Thinking; Analogy, Similarity and Metaphor; Concepts and Conceptual Structure; Language and Cognition; Language Acquisition; Cross-linguistic Studies.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and—with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine—provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
Visit Professor Dedre Gentner’s website to learn more about her research.
Related: National Academy of Sciences press release on the election of new members