Creativity reflects the remarkable human capacity to produce novel and effective ideas.
Empirical work suggests that creative ideas do not just emerge out of nowhere but typically …

Employee creativity is critical for an organization's innovativeness and survival in today's
competitive business environment. As such, scholars have devoted significant attention to …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

Due to the explosion of new sources of human language data and the rapid progression of
computational methods for extracting meaning from natural language, language analysis is …

Humanity's long-term welfare may lie in the hands of those who are presently living, raising
the question of whether people today hold the generations of tomorrow in their moral circles …

The associative theory posits that creativity relates to people's ability to connect remote
associations to form new ideas, based on the structure of their semantic memory. This theory …

Wherever consumers envision faraway locations, remember the past, predict the future,
consider the perspective of others, or entertain remote possibilities, their minds extrapolate …

Recent studies and reviews suggest that creative thinking is at least partly a domain-general
cognitive ability, dependent on consistent patterns of brain activity including co-activation of …

Daydreaming—engaging in an internal stream of thought unrelated to the here and now—is
often linked to creativity; but not all daydreams are creative or lead to creative ideas. To …

Highlights•The medial PFC was a consistently activated central brain region during concept
generation.•Similar patterns of co-activation in left and right PFC were observed.•Bilateral co …