Patterning and nonpatterning in creative cognition: Insights from performance in a random number generation task

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-145

  Zabelina, Darya L ^a   Robinson, Michael D ^b   Council, James R ^b   Bresin, Konrad ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement; Cognition; Creativity; Individual differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861678517     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025452     Document Type: Article

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