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Past and Present of Creative Thinking Research

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The international research on creativity can be traced back to more than one hundred years ago. It is generally believed that Hereditary Genius, published by the British physiologist Golden in 1869 was the earliest scientific and systematic documents on creativity research

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Dong (1993).

  2. 2.

    Dong (1993).

  3. 3.

    Bai (1997).

  4. 4.

    Liu (1986).

  5. 5.

    Liu (1986).

  6. 6.

    Lin (1996).

  7. 7.

    Robin and Holyoak (1995).

  8. 8.

    Blakeslee (1980).

  9. 9.

    Liu (1986).

  10. 10.

    Crick (1994).

  11. 11.

    Liu (1986).

  12. 12.

    Liu (1986).

  13. 13.

    Robin and Holyoak (1995).

  14. 14.

    Blakeslee (1980).

  15. 15.

    Dennett (1991).

  16. 16.

    Calvin (1996).

  17. 17.

    Hirst (1995).

  18. 18.

    Farber and Churchland (1995).

  19. 19.

    Zhang (1993).

  20. 20.

    Hu (1984).

  21. 21.

    Li et al. (1995).

  22. 22.

    Li et al. (1995).

  23. 23.

    Smith and Jonides (1995).

  24. 24.

    Smith and Jonides (1995).

  25. 25.

    Blumstein (1995).

  26. 26.

    Petrides et al. (1993).

  27. 27.

    Smith and Jonides (1995).

  28. 28.

    Blakeslee (1980).

  29. 29.

    Gazzaniga (1995).

  30. 30.

    Gazzaniga (1995).

  31. 31.

    Levy et al. (1972).

  32. 32.

    Smith and Jonides (1995).

  33. 33.

    Dryden and Vos (1997).

  34. 34.

    Gazzaniga (1995).

  35. 35.

    Smith and Jonides (1995).

  36. 36.

    Blumstein (1995).

  37. 37.

    Stromswold (1995).

  38. 38.

    Lou et al. (1990).

  39. 39.

    Dryden and Vos (1997).

  40. 40.

    Gardner (1983).

  41. 41.

    Farah (1995).

  42. 42.

    Whitaker et al. (1991).

  43. 43.

    Brownell et al. (1986).

  44. 44.

    Caramazza et al. (1976).

  45. 45.

    Read (1981).

  46. 46.

    Blakeslee (1980).

  47. 47.

    Blakeslee (1980).

  48. 48.

    Gardner (1983).

  49. 49.

    Piotrowski (1981).

  50. 50.

    Blakeslee (1980).

  51. 51.

    Liang (1998).

  52. 52.

    Lowe (1985).

  53. 53.

    Kosslyn and Sussman (1995).

  54. 54.

    Kosslyn (1980).

  55. 55.

    Farah (1995).

  56. 56.

    Cave and Kosslyn (1989).

  57. 57.

    Rockland and Virga (1989).

  58. 58.

    Kosslyn and Sussman (1995).

  59. 59.

    Droulez and Berthoz (1990).

  60. 60.

    Kosslyn and Sussman (1995).

  61. 61.

    Meado et al. (1987).

  62. 62.

    Squire and Knowlton (1995).

  63. 63.

    Squire and Zola-Morgan (1991).

  64. 64.

    Zola-Morgan and Squire (1993).

  65. 65.

    Smith and Jonides (1995).

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