Creativity reflects the remarkable human capacity to produce novel and effective ideas.
Empirical work suggests that creative ideas do not just emerge out of nowhere but typically …

Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful
exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers …

In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as
memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition--the functions in which the …

This paper investigates the mechanisms through which organizations develop dynamic
capabilities, defined as routinized activities directed to the development and adaptation of …

This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of
literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural …

Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can remember about seven chunks in short-
term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and …

How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And
just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner? When The Creative …

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to
one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective …

Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on
creativity. The book summarizes and integrates a broad range of research in psychology …