The Creative Act as a Dialectical Process

The Creative Process 1 Running Head: the Creative Process the Creative Process with Visualization as an Enabler

The mechanisms underlying the cognitive process behind creativity can be severely limited by short-term memory capacity as well as by developing a solution with a ‘closed-mind,’ meaning that the creator is limited by his/her own tunnel vision which limits creativity. Visualizations are a physical representation of the semantic networks that are created during the creative process as a creator s...

Creative Flow as a Unique Cognitive Process

Creative Thought as a nonDarwinian Evolutionary Process

Selection theory requires multiple, distinct, simultaneously-actualized states. In cognition, each thought or cognitive state changes the ‘selection pressure’ against which the next is evaluated; they are not simultaneously selected amongst. Creative thought is more a matter of honing in a vague idea through redescribing successive iterations of it from different real or imagined perspectives; ...

Reframing Scholarship As a Creative Process

In this article it is proposed that approached in the right way, literature reviews can be an opportunity for creative inquiry. The process of the literature review is framed as a participation in a community, a dialogue with those who are part of the community now and with one’s “ancestors.” The literature review can also explore the deeper underlying assumptions of the larger community or com...

The Invention of Microprogramming as a Creative Process

The work described in this short paper is intended as a study of creativity in the domain of the invention and design of artifacts. Using archival records and a knowledge l vel model of the creative process, we have constructed a plausible explanation of the process by which microprogramming may have been invented by Wilkes. The paper presents the main results of this inquiry.