MEASURING ARTISTIC CREATIVITY AND FLEXIBILITY1

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Neuropsychological Aspects of Artistic Creativity

Most traditional neuropsychological work concerns aspects of cognition in the most ordinary sense: how the average person perceives and represents the world, and how she acts in response to what is perceived or felt. The extraordinary perception and action of artists has been a subject of fascination for some neuropsychologists at least since Alajouanine, but little systematic work has been don...

Computational Artistic Creativity and its Evaluation

In most cases, people judge creativity by evaluating the resulting artifact, after the productive behavior has been completed. Hence, we will concentrate on the artifact here. However, sometimes the artistic process is inferable by the evaluator, perhaps due to some attributes of the artifact, or sometimes it’s even observable. Colton (2008) argues that art is identified as more creative if the...

How Copying Artwork Affects Students’ Artistic Creativity

30 undergraduates participated individually in a threeday-drawing experiment. It was explored whether an experience copying others’ drawing facilitated subjects’ artistic creativity. Results showed that drawings by subjects who previously had copied others’ drawings were rated more creative than the drawings of subjects who had not copied. Two further analyses revealed how subjects could produc...

Measuring Creativity

One might logically ask, why measure creativity? Measuring creativity may be useful for hiring university faculty or corporate executives. For example, when admitting students to graduate research in Ph.D. programs academia should have some objective grounds that these students will be productive scholars. It may also be useful in research situations where one is attempting to determine what ca...