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Associative thinking is a key aspect for designers in the phases of their creative work. This type of thinking is based among others on analogical and metaphorical reasoning and reasoning by visual posters. Visual analogy and visual thinking play an important role in the field of design. They are often assisted and guided by visual stimuli. Our main goal was to conduct a global quantitative meta- analysis regarding the relation between analogical reasoning and creativity. The scientific literature was explored and...

Many scientific articles concluded that analogical reasoning can influence creativity in different ways. Some of them claimed that this way of thinking can induce fixation which in turn has a negative influence on the generation of creative ideas. Furthermore, other studies considered analogical reasoning as a key factor of creative thinking. Based on these results we have focused on the relationship between analogical reasoning and creativity. Our main purpose was to investigate figural analogical thinking and cr...