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When insight just won't come: The failure of visual cues in the nine-dot problem

Pages 903-919 | Published online: 22 Oct 2010

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Ivana Bianchi, Erika Branchini, Roberto Burro, Elena Capitani & Ugo Savardi. (2020) Overtly prompting people to “think in opposites” supports insight problem solving. Thinking & Reasoning 26:1, pages 31-67.
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Patrick J. Cushen & Jennifer Wiley. (2012) Cues to solution, restructuring patterns, and reports of insight in creative problem solving. Consciousness and Cognition 21:3, pages 1166-1175.
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