Relational encoding promotes creative insight for problem-solving.
The nature and basis of creative thought has been the subject of wide-ranging inquiry. It is well established that people tend to struggle to solve problems that require an insight—and that this limitation is not readily alleviated. What can help produce more successful creative cognition? We propos...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1820 - 1836 |
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