Mental leaps
Subtitle: analogy in creative thought
By: Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard.
Contributors: Thagard, Paul.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Analogy.; Creative thinking.
Description: "Analogy - recalling familiar past situations to deal with novel ones - can provide invaluable creative insights, but it can also lead to dangerous errors. In Mental Leaps, two leading cognitive scientists show how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively." --Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-311) and index.
"A Bradford book."