Scientific discovery and inventive engineering design: cognitive and computational similarities

Keywords

Computer science, Cognition, Scientific discovery, Cognitive science, Engineering

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• Design: One, but in different formsWillemien Visser — 2007
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• Domain-specific and Domain-general Creativity Differences between Expert and Novice DesignersJing Teng, Xinyue Wang, Kelong Lu — 2021
• The Cognition of Engineering Design - An Opportunity of ImpactJ. Cagan — 2007
• Chapter 9 KINEMATIC SYNTHESISA. U.S. — 2001

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