The brain's default network (DN) has been a topic of considerable empirical interest. In fMRI research, DN activity is associated with spontaneous and self-generated cognition, such as mind-wandering, episodic memory retrieval, future thinking, mental simulation, theory of mind reasoning, and creative cognition. Despite large literatures on developmental and disease-related influences on the DN...

This study uses data collected on students enrolled in a software development course to explore the role of Creative Self-Efficacy, Playfulness, and Self-Efficacy in the quality of the students’ software development process and projects using a theoretical model proposed by Chiravuri and Ambrose [4]. Instruction in the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s Personal Software Productiv...

Abstract The main objective of the study presented in this article was to examine the relationship between trait curiosity and two self-concept constructs which are gaining popularity in the creativity literature – creative self-efficacy (CSE) and creative personal identity (CPI). Although the role of curiosity in creativity seems well established, in fact there is little empirical evidence of ...

Submitted for the MAR13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Unconventional Routes for the Enhancement of the Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) Based on Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Nanotemplates YOONHEE JANG, DONGHA KIM, Ewha Womans University — We introduce distinctly different and creative two strategies for improving the efficiency of TiO2-based DSSCs by incorporation o...

A study was done to test the efficacy of the triarchic theory of intelligence as a basis for predicting self-reported adaptive functioning in a rapidly changing society, that of Russia. Measures of analytical, creative, and practical intelligence were administered to 452 women and 293 men between the ages of 26 and 60 years. Participants also answered questions about their physical health as we...

This paper proposes a theory of creativity, referred to as honing theory, which posits that creativity fuels the process by which culture evolves through communal exchange amongst minds that are self-organizing, self-maintaining, and self-reproducing. According to honing theory, minds, like other self-organizing systems, modify their contents and adapt to their environments to minimize entropy....