In this paper, I will question the traditional definition according to which the creative process is the solving of especially complex problems. After a brief introduction, I aim to show that every instance of successful problem solving constitutes a creative process which results in a creative product. In this view, the conventionally assumed relationship of creativity and problem solving is r...

Very little work in psychology has tried to simultaneously tackle the representational problem and the search problem in creative problem solving. Unifying these two fields is critical, because building and searching the problem space may be highly interactive activities that cannot be decoupled and studied in isolation. In addition. neuroscientific explanations of creative problem solving have...

It was investigated in humans whether the incorporation of an extinction cue attenuates renewal of extinguished conditioned performance using a computerized task. All participants received an acquisition phase against a specific background, context A. In this context they learned that two conditioned stimuli, CS1 and CS2, predicted the occurrence of an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US) and t...