A new dynamical model of brainstorming: Linear, nonlinear, continuous (simultaneous) and impulsive (sequential) cases

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 253-264

  Coskun, Hamit ^a   Yilmaz, Oguz ^b  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brainstorming; Brainwriting; Dynamical systems; Impulsive differential equations; Memory; Modeling; Sequential priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650230389     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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