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

这个为期三年的奖项支持美国东北大学的Bipin Indurkhya和法国国家科学研究中心计算机科学与工程实验室人类认知小组主任Marie-Dominique Gineste在认知系统方面的美法合作研究。他们的研究目的是实证研究创造性隐喻和类比背后的认知过程。研究人员假设，某些隐喻和类比创造了相似性，表征的变化是这一过程的基础。研究者建议通过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。这位美国研究者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。这位法国研究者在认知心理学方面的专业知识和她对类比的实证研究补充了这一点。这项研究探索了人工智能的一个新领域；也就是说，在创造性隐喻和类比的基础上产生表征。

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.