Imagery, creativity, and emergent structure

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 381-393

  Finke, Ronald A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATIVITY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CREATIVENESS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030228206     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1996.0024     Document Type: Article

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