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Creative model construction in scientists and students : the role of imagery, analogy, and mental simulation /
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. Some aspects of creative scientific t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; London :
Springer,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the power of analogies, the use of physical intuition, and the enigmatic ability to learn from thought experiments. The book examines the hypothesis that these processes are based on imagistic mental simulation as an underlying mechanism. This allows the ana. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-589)-and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781402067129 1402067127 1402067119 9781402067112 9048130239 9789048130238 |