Dr. Keith Holyoak, a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA, is a leading researcher in the field of human thinking, as well as a poet. His scientific work combines behavioral investigations with both cognitive neuroscience and computational modeling of cognition. A recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, which awarded him the Warren Medal in 2022. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of several books in cognitive science, including Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning and Discovery (1986), Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (1995), The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science (2001), The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (2012), The Spider’s Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry (2019), and The Human Edge: Analogy and the Roots of Creative Intelligence (2025). He has also published a volume of his translations of classical Chinese poetry, as well as four volumes of his own poetry. Keith’s fascination with analogy and symbolism carried him over to a parallel career as a poet.