Hybrid analogies in conceptual innovation in science

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 178-188

  Nersessian, Nancy J ^a   Chandrasekharan, Sanjay ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptual innovation; Engineering sciences; Hybrid analogies; Simulation; Visual reasoning

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL INNOVATION; ENGINEERING SCIENCES; HYBRID ANALOGIES; SIMULATION; VISUAL REASONING;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

INNOVATION;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS MODEL; ROBOTICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; THEORY;

EID: 67349285364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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