When insight just won't come: The failure of visual cues in the nine-dot problem

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 903-919

  Chronicle, Edward P ^a   Ormerod, Thomas C ^a   MacGregor, James N ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85047683900     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755996     Document Type: Article

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