The importance of iteration in creative conceptual combination

Joel Chan1, Christian D Schunn2

  • 1LRDC Rm 823, University of Pittsburgh, 3939 O'Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.

Cognition
|September 3, 2015
PubMed

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