Incubation and creativity: Do something different

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 137-149

  Gilhooly, Ken J ^a   Georgiou, George ^a   Devery, Ultan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Incubation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877891535     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2012.749812     Document Type: Article

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