Employees in many jobs encounter novel, ill-defined problems, and finding creative
solutions to these problems may be the critical factor that allows their organization to …

Cognitive approaches to creativity are discussed as they relate to an important task of
entrepreneurs: generating novel and useful ideas for business ventures. Attention is given to …

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use
of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses …

Abstract SUSTAIN (Supervised and Unsupervised STratified Adaptive Incremental Network)
is a model of how humans learn categories from examples. SUSTAIN initially assumes a …

This article describes cross-cultural and developmental research on folk biology: that is, the
study of how people conceptualize living kinds. The combination of a conceptual module for …

In the real world, buyer demand for a product can depend directly and indirectly on the
marketing efforts of “other products” in different categories. The authors offer a behavioral …

Individuals can infer what others are likely to know by clustering knowledge according to
common goals, common topics, or common underlying principles. Although young children …

The notions of'function','feature'and'functional feature'are associated with relatively new
developments and insights in several areas of cognition. This book brings together different …

Living and conducting research among the Tzeltal-speaking Maya allowed me to
experience firsthand the depth of their knowledge about plants and animals. The children …

One problem confronting instructors in cognitive psychology courses is covering such
diverse topics as pattern recognition, attention, memory, language, decision-making, and …