The role of pattern recognition in creative problem solving: A case study in search of new mathematics for biology

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 181-215

  Hong, Felix T ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Heuristic search; Parallel processing; Pattern recognition; Sequential processing; Visual thinking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREATIVITY; HEURISTIC SEARCH; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; VISUAL THINKING;

CREATIVITY; HEURISTIC SEARCH; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING; VISUAL THINKING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREATIVITY; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84884973287     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2013.03.017     Document Type: Review

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