U.S. - France Cooperative Research: Investigating the Psychological Basis of Creative Metaphors and Analogies

9314569 INDURKHYA这个为期三年的奖项支持东北大学的比平·INDURKhya和CNRS计算机科学与工程实验室人类认知组主任玛丽-多米尼克·吉内斯特在认知系统方面的美法合作研究。他们的研究目的是对创造性隐喻和类比背后的认知过程进行实证研究。研究人员假设，某些隐喻和类比会产生相似性，而表征的变化是这一过程的基础。研究者建议通过对几何图形的知觉刺激和书面文本形式的言语刺激的联合实验来探索这一过程。这位美国研究人员为这次合作带来了认知系统和人工智能建模方面的重要专业知识。这一点得到了这位法国研究员在认知心理学方面的专业知识和她对类比的实证研究的补充。这项研究探索了人工智能的一个新领域，即生成支撑创造性隐喻和类比的表征。

9314569 Indurkhya This three-year award supports U.S.-France cooperative research in cognitive systems between Bipin Indurkhya of Northeastern University and Marie-Dominique Gineste, Director of the Human Cognition Group of the CNRS Laboratory for Computer Science and Engineering. The objective of their research is to empirically investigate the cognitive processes underlying creative metaphors and analogies. The investigators hypothesize that certain metaphors and analogies create similarities and that change of representation underlies this process. The investigators propose to explore the process through joint experiments on perceptual stimuli of geometric figures and verbal stimuli in the form of written text. The U.S. investigator brings to this collaboration significant expertise in modeling of cognitive systems and artificial intelligence. This is complemented by the French investigator's expertise in cognitive psychology and her empirical research on analogy. The research explores a new area in artificial intelligence; that is, the generation of representations underlying creative metaphors and analogies.