On the blind-mindedness of creative thought. Comment on "Creative thought as blind-variation and selective-retention: Combinatorial models of exceptional creativity" by Dean Keith Simonton

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-189

  Dasgupta, Subrata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind variation; Creativity; Darwinism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; HUMAN; MEMORY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; CREATIVENESS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; THINKING;

EID: 77952890378     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2010.05.002     Document Type: Note

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