Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students: Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation
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Chapter 1: Introduction: A Hidden World of Nonformal Expert Reasoning This chapter motivates the study of nonformal methods experts use during the process of creative theory formation rather than those they display in polished articles after the fact, and describes the method of video taped think aloud protocols used in this study. The tapes capture scientists in the act of: mentally performing imaginative spatial transformations such as deforming, cutting, and reassembling objects in novel ways; and generating creative analogies, extreme cases, explanatory models and thought experiments; and the book aims to document the fact that such methods are actually used in scientific thinking.
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