Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students
Subtitle: The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9789048130238
Subjects: Creative thinking; Creative ability; Cognitive science; Analogy
Description: How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones? This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems.