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Legal name: John-Steiner, Veronka Polgar
Birthdate: 1930-06-13
Date of death: 2017-12-06
Gender: female
Education: University of Chicago (PhD|psychology|1956)
Columbia University (BA|1950)
Occupations: psycholinguist
Organizations: University of New Mexico
Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences
American Psychological Association
American Anthropological Association
Nationality: Hungary (birth)
USA
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Places of residence: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Associated Place (for map): Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

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Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking by Vera John-Steiner

Interesting perspective to creativity or how we create something out of our minds. The visual representation is an important part of the book and how ideas can formulated to generate new ideas. Very interesting, condense and opening the door to new knowledge. The only drawback is the lack of visual representation of the notebooks form the interviewed people...

May 10, 2009