The effects of biological examples in idea generation

By Jamal O. Wilson, David W. Rosen, B. Nelson, Jeannette Yen. 2010

189 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Christian D. Schunn
2. Nathan Crilly
3. Barry L. Bayus

In Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• The state of the art in biomimetics (2012, background): “…2007, Teeri et al 2007, Pfeifer et al 2007, Fratzl 2007, Bhushan 2009, Bongard 2009, Helms et al 2009, Gebeshuber et al 2009, Johnson et al 2009, Wilson et al 2010, Nagel and Stone 2011, Nosonovsky and Rohatgi 2012, Rawlings et al 2012), such accounts usually emphasize subjects that are part of…”
• On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design : Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples (2011, background): “Further, exposure to surface dissimilar design examples increases idea novelty relative to using no examples, and exposure to surface similar examples decreases the variety of ideas generated relative to surface dissimilar examples [19].”