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The Cambridge Handbook of
Thinking and Reasoning
The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Rea- of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has made
soning is the prehensive and authorita- a number of major contributions to the scientific
tive handbook covering all the core topics of the understanding of human thinking and has pio-
field of thinking and reasoning. Written by the neered modern work on the role of analogy in
foremost experts from cognitive psychology, cog- thinking.
nitive science, and cognitive neuroscience, indi-
vidual chapters summarize basic concepts and
findings for a major topic, sketch its history, and Robert G. Morrison is president of Xunesis
give a sense of the directions in which research is (), a not-for-pany that
currently heading. The volume also includes work encourages people to integrate science with
related to developmental, social and clinical psy- their everyday lives through performance and
chology, philosophy, economics, artificial intelli- media art that engages, entertains, and ed-
gence, linguistics, education, law, and medicine. ucates in both traditional and nontraditional
Scholars and students in all these fields and educational settings. He received his . in
others will find this to be a valuable collection. cognitive neuroscience from UCLA. His re-
search involves understanding how the hu-
Keith J. Holyoak is a Distinguished Professor in man brain implements and constrains higher
the Department of Psychology at the University cognition.
i
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The Cambridge Handbook of
Thinking and Reasoning


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Keith J. Holyoak
and
Robert G. Morrison
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