Science as structured imagination

Journal of Creative Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-44

  De Cruz, Helen ^a   De Smedt, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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