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Tobore Onojighofia Tobore
Creativity, which is the leverage of imagination to attain valued goals, is one of the defining features of humans. It is the trait that gives an advantage to humans in solving problems, enhancing their survival. Creativity is a critical evolved trait, hard-wired in the human genome and linked with many benefits…
Peter Childs, Ji Han, Liuqing Chen, Pingfei Jiang + 5 more
'Dongmyung Park' 'Yuan Yin' 'Elena Dieckmann' 'Ignacio Vilanova'] There are many facets to creativity, and the topic has a profound impact on society. Substantial and sustained study on creativity has been undertaken, and much is now known about the fundamentals and how creativity can be augmented. To draw these…
Liane Gabora
| What is Creativity? 3 | | --- | | Process versus Product 3 | | Personal versus Historical Creativity 4 | | Distinguishing Creativity from Discovery and Invention 4 | | Creativity versus Intelligence 4 | | Creativity versus Individual Learning 5 | | Historical Framework 5 | | Creative Cognition 6 | | Stages and…
Steven Brown, Eunseon Kim
One of the central questions about the cognitive neuroscience of creativity is the extent to which creativity depends on either domain-specific or domain-general mechanisms. To address this question, we carried out two parallel activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses of creativity: 1) a motoric analysis that…
Sarah Moreno-Rodriguez, Benoît Béranger, Emmanuelle Volle, Alizée Lopez-Persem
Why do people have different opinions regarding who the best musical artist is? While neuroscience of creativity consensually defines creativity as producing something both original and adequate, how this is influenced by individual preferences remains unclear. Combining creative word-association and rating tasks, this…
Anna Jordanous, Bill Keller
Creativity is a complex, multi-faceted concept encompassing a variety of related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours. If we wish to study creativity scientifically, then a tractable and well-articulated model of creativity is required. Such a model would be of great value to researchers investigating the…
Yong Shao, Chenchen Zhang, Jing Zhou, Ting Gu + 1 more
The purpose of this study was to examine how culture shapes creativity by reviewing empirical findings across diverse studies. The impact of culture on creativity is typically manifested in three ways: (1) people from different cultures or settings have distinct implicit and/or explicit conceptions of creativity; (2)…
Koji Koizumi, Kazutaka Ueda, Ziyang Li, Masayuki Nakao
Human creative thinking is unique and capable of generating novel and valuable ideas. Recent research has clarified the contribution of different brain networks (default mode network, DN; executive control network; salience network) to creative thinking. However, the effects of brain stimulation on brain networks…
Naomi Prent, Dirk J.A. Smit
The neuronal mechanisms underlying creativity are poorly understood. Here, we investigated whether temporal dynamics of functional brain activity is a biomarker of creative ideation. Specifically, we investigated whether long-range temporal correlations in fluctuating resting-state alpha oscillations predict human…
Yiyuan Teresa Huang, Chien-Te Wu, Zenas C. Chao
The brain’s resting-state activity can serve as an indicator of cognitive flexibility and predict the likelihood of an upcoming Aha experience. This suggests that spontaneous neural dynamics reflect a person’s readiness for creative insight and underscore the potential of resting-state measures as biomarkers for…
Victoria C. Oleynick, Todd M. Thrash, Michael C. LeFew, Emil G. Moldovan + 1 more
'Emil G. Moldovan' 'Paul D. Kieffaber'] Inspiration is a motivational state that compels individuals to bring ideas into fruition. Creators have long argued that inspiration is important to the creative process, but until recently, scientists have not investigated this claim. In this article, we review challenges to…
Divya Sadana, Rajnish K. Gupta, S. S. Kumaran, Sanjeev Jain + 1 more
Creative individuals and their enigmatic personalities have always been a subject of fascination. The current study explored the neuroanatomical basis of creative personality using voxel-based morphometry. The sample comprised of two groups - Creative (CR) group (professional creative artists) and matched controls with…
Zenas C. Chao, Miyoko Street, Tzu-Ling Liu
Creativity is essential for innovation, yet the brain mechanisms supporting its moment-to-moment variability remain unclear. We hypothesize that creativity depends on dynamic fluctuations in neural flexibility, which determine the potential to generate creative solutions. Here, we identify a shared neural marker of…
Andrea Schiavio, Mathias Benedek
Current literature on creative cognition has developed rich conceptual landscapes dedicated to the analysis of both individual and collective forms of creativity. This work has favored the emergence of unifying theories on domain-general creative abilities in which the main experiential, behavioral, computational, and…
Liane Gabora, Hadi Firouzi
In a society, a proportion of the individuals can benefit from creativity without being creative themselves by copying the creators. This paper uses an agent-based model of cultural evolution to investigate how society is affected by different levels of individual creativity. We performed a time series analysis of the…
Yanna Zhang, Pin Li, Zhitian Skylor Zhang, Xingli Zhang + 1 more
This study investigated the relationships between parental responsiveness, teaching responsiveness, and creativity, as well as the mechanism underlying these associations. We collected data from 584 Chinese college students via convenience sampling method and used self-report scales to measure their perceived parental…
Michael Hanchett Hanson
Anna Craft, a leading researcher on creativity and education, described a condition that many of us have watched accelerate: “Creativity is an important element of the zeitgeist in the early twenty-first century, worldwide” ([5], p. ix), encompassing discourses on genius and individualism, democracy and politics, the…
Liane Gabora, Simon Tseng
Excess individual creativity can be detrimental to society because creators invest in unproven ideas at the expense of propagating proven ones. Moreover, a proportion of individuals can benefit from creativity without being creative themselves by copying creators. We hypothesized that (1) societies increase their rate…
Liane Gabora, Simon Tseng
This work was supported by a grant (62R06523) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Thanks to Fabian Yáñez for assistance with the manuscript, and to Tiha von Ghyczy for assistance with the analysis. Preliminary reports on portions of this work were presented at the Annual Meeting of the…
Veronique Richard, Darren Holder, John Cairney
In a global and highly competitive world, the importance of creativity is increasing as it supports adaptability, health, and actualization. Yet, because most research focuses on what it takes to produce creative artifacts, interventions supporting growth in creative potential remains underexplored. To address this…
Ronald Marquez, Laura Tolosa, Ruben Gomez, Cesar Izaguirre + 3 more
The teaching-learning process in traditional university education uses strategies that position the student as a recipient of information conveyed by the teacher and conceptualized as knowledge. The reality in which we live, including the characteristics of new generational groups, requires the generation of training…
Daniela Gaytán-Hernández, Ana L. Chávez-Hernández, Edgar López-López, Jazmín Miranda-Salas + 2 more
Science and art have been connected for centuries. With the development of new computational methods, new scientific disciplines have emerged, such as computational chemistry, and related fields, such as chemoinformatics that use informatic methods to solve chemical problems focusing on small molecules.…
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In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. Ancient Greek philosophy Aristotle defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.” First principles thinking (or reasoning from first…
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Digital learning and gamification make studying chemistry more exciting and engaging. Interactive digital tools allow students to understand fundamental concepts of chemistry more easily. However, application of this knowledge is hampered by the lack of user-friendly chemistry simulators, in which students could apply…