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 …

Highlights•We review cognitive mechanisms of brain networks supporting creative
cognition.•Mechanisms include memory retrieval, response inhibition, and internal …

Associative theories of creativity argue that creative cognition involves the abilities to
generate remote associations and make useful connections between unrelated concepts in …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Creativity is an essential cognitive ability linked to all areas of our everyday functioning.
Thus, finding a way to enhance it is of broad interest. A large number of anecdotal reports …

Over the past decade, episodic memory has been reconceptualised as future-oriented. In
2007, Schacter and I proposed the 'constructive episodic simulation hypothesis' to account …

Humans can recollect past events in details (recollection) and/or know that an object,
person, or place has been encountered before (familiarity). During the last two decades …

Highlights•Creativity involves two phases, a generation phase and an evaluation
phase.•Stringent evaluation hinders divergent thinking abilities.•Environmental factors affect …

Increasing evidence suggests that specific memory systems (eg, semantic vs. episodic) may
support specific creative thought processes. However, there are a number of inconsistencies …

Questions concerning the relation between memory and imagination have occupied a
prominent place in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience during the past several …