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V - Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2024

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Jennifer Wiley  and
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Carola Salvi
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John Cabot University, Rome
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University of Illinois, Chicago
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The Emergence of Insight , pp. 221 - 308
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