More than ever a central theme of cognitive science, the study
of mappings, projections, and integrations was the topic
of a series of talks at UCSD in the Winter of 1998.
Leading researchers presented their latest models, experiments,
and controversies. The speakers were Keith Holyoak, Ray
Gibbs, Seana Coulson, Srini Narayanan, George Lakoff, Arthur Markman, Douglas Hofstadter,
Edwin Hutchins, and Gilles Fauconnier.
In addition to materials provided by speakers, the following
background readings were suggested:
Holyoak, Keith J. and Paul Thagard. 1994. Mental Leaps: Analogy in
Creative Thought. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.
Hofstadter, D. 1995. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. New
York: Basic Books.
Indurkhya, B. 1992. Metaphor and Cognition: An interactionist
approach. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Coulson, Seana. 1997. Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual
Blending. UCSD Ph. D. dissertation.
Gibbs, R. W., Jr. 1994. The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought,
Language, and Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Turner, Mark. 1996. The Literary Mind. (New York: Oxford
University Press).
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors we live by.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fauconnier, G. 1997. Mappings in Thought and Language. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
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