Creativity and discovery as blind variation and selective retention: Multiple-Variant definition and Blind-Sighted integration

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 222-228

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind variations; Campbell; Creativity; Discovery; Sightedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052278643     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023144     Document Type: Article

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