An explicit cue improves creative analogical reasoning

Intelligence

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 598-603

  Green, Adam E ^a   Cohen, Michael S ^b   Kim, Joseph U ^c   Gray, Jeremy R ^d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogical reasoning; Creativity; Semantic distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866456127     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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