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Keith James Holyoak (born January 16, 1950) is a Canadian-American researcher in
cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
and cognitive science, working on human thinking and
reasoning Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, lang ...
. Holyoak's work focuses on the role of
analogy Analogy (from Greek ''analogia'', "proportion", from ''ana-'' "upon, according to" lso "against", "anew"+ ''logos'' "ratio" lso "word, speech, reckoning" is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject ( ...
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. Holyoak is also a poet. He has published four collections of his own poems, ''My Minotaur'', ''Foreigner'', ''The Gospel According to Judas'', and ''Oracle Bones'', as well as a collection of translations of classical Chinese poetry by Li Bai and
Du Fu Du Fu (; 712–770) was a Tang dynasty poet and politician. Along with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai (Li Po), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.Ebrey, 103. His greatest ambition was to serve his country as ...
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Facing the Moon ''Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu'' is a collection of English translations of Chinese poetry by the Tang dynasty poets Li Bai and Du Fu, translated by Keith Holyoak Keith James Holyoak (born January 16, 1950) is a Canadian-Ameri ...
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Biography

Holyoak was born in
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, British Columbia, Canada, in 1950. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1971, and his PhD in Psychology from
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in 1976. His doctoral advisor was Gordon Bower. He was on the faculty of the University of Michigan from 1976 to 1986, and then joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology. He served as Chair of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society (1994–95) and Editor of the journals ''
Cognitive Psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
'' (1995–99) and ''
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'' (2016–2021). Holyoak is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received a Fellowship from the
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in 1991, and a
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Fellowship in 1999. He is a Fellow of the
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,
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, the
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, and the
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(SEP). In 2022 the SEP awarded him the
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Books and recordings


Cognitive science

*Holyoak, K. J. (2019). ''The Spider’s Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, . *Holland, J.H., Holyoak, K.J., Nisbett, R.E., & Thagard, P. (1986). ''Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, . * Holyoak, K.J., & Thagard, P. (1995). ''Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought''. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, . * Gentner, D., Holyoak, K.J., & Kokinov, B. (Eds.) (2001). ''The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, * Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (Eds.) (2005). ''The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning''. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, * Holyoak, K.J., & Morrison, R.G. (Eds.) (2012). ''The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning''. New York, NY: Oxford University Press,


Poetry

* Holyoak, K. (2019). ''Oracle Bones: Poems from the Time of Misrule.''. Seattle, WA: oldfish Press . * Holyoak, K. (2015). ''The Gospel According to Judas''. Loveland, OH:
Dos Madres Press Dos Madres Press is a small press based in Loveland, Ohio. The press, founded in 2004, specializes in books of poetry. Authors published by the press include Norman Finkelstein, Richard Hague, Michael Heller, Roald Hoffmann, Keith Holyoak, Burt ...
, . * Holyoak, K. (2012). ''Foreigner: New English Poems in Chinese Old Style''. Loveland, OH:
Dos Madres Press Dos Madres Press is a small press based in Loveland, Ohio. The press, founded in 2004, specializes in books of poetry. Authors published by the press include Norman Finkelstein, Richard Hague, Michael Heller, Roald Hoffmann, Keith Holyoak, Burt ...
, . * Holyoak, K. (2010). ''My Minotaur: Selected Poems 1998–2006''. Loveland, OH:
Dos Madres Press Dos Madres Press is a small press based in Loveland, Ohio. The press, founded in 2004, specializes in books of poetry. Authors published by the press include Norman Finkelstein, Richard Hague, Michael Heller, Roald Hoffmann, Keith Holyoak, Burt ...
, . * Holyoak, K. (translator) (2007). ''Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu''. Durham, NH:
Oyster River Press Oyster River Press is a small press based in Durham, New Hampshire. The press specializes in new and international poetry, as well as books on Chinese myths, the environment, and the art of living. Bilingual editions of translations are also a focu ...
, . * ''Keith Holyoak's Descent''. Broken Electric Records (2006). * ''Poems of Li Bai''. Broken Electric Records (2007). * ''Poems of Du Fu''. Broken Electric Records (2009).


Selected publications

* Mental leaps: Analogy in creative thought. * Analogical problem solving * Schema induction and analogical transfer * Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery * Pragmatic reasoning schemas * Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction


References


External links


Keith Holyoak's UCLA home pageKeith Holyoak's Poetry home pagePoems
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