A thematic relation is a temporal, spatial, causal, or functional relation between things that
perform complementary roles in the same scenario or event. For example, cows and milk are …

Recent technological advancements allow companies to incorporate increasingly
heterogeneous and interrelated features into their products, which heightens the products' …

How can creative problem solving be enhanced? The paper identifies and examines
modulatory approaches from the cognitive and neuroscientific literature that have been …

The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. People often
imagine how events might have turned out “if only” something had been different. The “fault …

Prior research has acknowledged the importance of an organization's absorptive capacity—
the ability to acquire new knowledge and information, assimilate, transform, and exploit it …

The success of a brand extension depends largely on the similarity between the brand and
its extension product. Recent psychological and neuroscientific evidence supports a dual …

Conceptual combination research investigates the processes involved in creating new
meaning from old referents. It is therefore essential that embodied theories of cognition are …

Historically, accounts of object representation and perceived similarity have focused on
intrinsic features. Although more recent accounts have explored how objects, scenes, and …

Lexical priming, whereby a prime word facilitates recognition of a related target word (eg,
nurse→ doctor), is typically attributed to association strength, semantic similarity, or …

Thematically related concepts like coffee and milk are judged to be more similar than
thematically unrelated concepts like coffee and lemonade. We investigated whether …