Psychological research on insight problem solving

Recasting Reality: Wolfgang Pauli's Philosophical Ideas and Contemporary Science

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 275-300

  Öllinger, Michael ^a   Knoblich, Günther ^b,c  

^a Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking   (Germany)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85198-1_14     Document Type: Chapter

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