How examples may (and may not) constrain creativity

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 669-680

  Marsh, Richard L ^a,b   Landau, Joshua D ^a   Hicks, Jason L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029758475     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201091     Document Type: Article

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