"Putting Blinkers on a Blind Man": Providing Cognitive Support for Creative Processes with Environmental Cues

Tools for Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Christensen, Bo T ^a   Schunn, Christian D ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Creative cognition; Creative processes; Creativity support tools; Environmental cues; Mental simulation; Random input

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920870829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381634.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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