Keith James Holyoak

Keith Holyoak

Keith James Holyoak (born January 16, 1950) is a researcher in cognitive psychology and cognitive science, working on human thinking and reasoning. ...

The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (Oxford Library of Psychology)

Thinking and reasoning, long the academic province of philosophy, have over the past century emerged as core topics of empirical investigation and theoretical analysis in the modern fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience. Formerly seen as too complicated and am...

The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science

Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical processing as the very core of cognition. This is the first book to s...

Causal Learning (The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, Volume 34) (Psychology of Learning and Motivation)

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditions to complex learning and problem solving. This guest-edited special volume is devoted to current research and discus...

Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought

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 mos...

Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

Two psychologists, a computer scientist, and a philosopher have collaborated to present a framework for understanding processes of inductive reasoning and learning in organisms and machines. Theirs is the first major effort to bring the ideas of several disciplines to bear on a subject that has been...

Cognition. 2nd Edition

Foreigner

Poetry. Illustrations by Jim Holyoak. "It is not every day a professional cognitive psychologist turns into a poet, yet that is what we have in Keith Holyoak. His study of Chinese poetry, especially Li Bai (Li Po) and Du Fu (Tu Fu), was the catalyst that brought about this remarkable metamorphosis. ...

My Minotaur

Poetry. Illustrations by Jim Holyoak. In this debut volume of selected poems, Keith Holyoak explores the borderlands where dualities run together--life and death, despair and hope, man and woman, reason and passion, human and animal, reality and dream. His poetic voice is juxtaposed with the surreal...