The Human Edge

What makes human cognition distinct from animal and artificial forms of intelligence—and how analogies play a crucial role in our unique abilities. In The Human Edge , cognitive scientist, poet, and translator Keith Holyoak takes a fresh look at what makes human intelligence special. His focus is analogy—the ability to see relational similarities between things that on the surface seem unalike. The book brings together a half century of research in cognitive, comparative, and developmental psych