Avatar-mediated creativity: When embodying inventors makes engineers more creative

When More Evidence Makes Word Learning Less Suspicious

One challenging problem that children overcome in learning new words is recognizing the hierarchical category of a label. For instance, one object could be called a Dalmatian, a dog, or an animal. Xu and Tenenbaum (2007) proposed a Bayesian model to explain how 3.5 to 5-year-olds solve this ambiguity. They emphasized children's appreciation for “suspicious coincidences:” a label applied to thre...

What makes musical improvisation creative ?

Background in musical improvisation and creativity. What makes musical improvisation creative? And what exactly is it that justifies one improviser being described as more creative than another? For a clearer understanding, it is a practical necessity to use an approach such as those of Berliner (1994) and Gibbs (2010), who make the study of improvisational creativity more tangible by identifyi...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Modeling Creativity and Knowledge-Based Creative Design

General features of creativity are discussed, aimed at providing a clear definition. In the view of general design theory, creativity is seen as a communication process aiming at consistency between different intensional and extensional representations of design. Basic concepts of classical neuropsychology and the functional structure of the brain are reviewed, emphasizing the self-controlling ...

Creative cognition as a window on creativity.

The creative cognition approach views creativity as the generation of novel and appropriate products through the application of basic cognitive processes to existing knowledge structures. It relies on converging evidence from anecdotal accounts of creativity and tightly controlled laboratory studies designed to examine the processes that are assumed to operate in those anecdotes. Specific examp...