The present study provides an in-depth review of the neurocognitive aspects of creativity
and its association with academic achievement in children. The outcomes of this study …

Thought experiments have been used as an effective methodological approach to advance
theory in numerous scientific fields. However, they are underutilized in organizational …

What happens in our brains when we compose a melody, write a poem, paint a picture, or
choreograph a dance sequence? How is this different from what occurs in the brain when …

Creativity has long been defined in terms of novelty and usefulness. Surprisingly, however,
there is relatively little agreement about the precise meaning of either dimension, the …

Modern ideas of embodiment have been influential in cognitive science for the past several
decades, yet there is minimal evidence of embodied cognition approaches in creativity …

This article provides an update on the blind-variation and selective-retention theory of
creativity (BVSR), beginning with an overview of its historical development. That brief …

Imagine the impact if we were to understand, and thus could reliably enhance, something–
anything–about how creativity works in the brain. The fact that this prospect is not anywhere …

Drawing on a micro-phenomenological paradigm, we discuss Contact Improvisation (CI),
where dancers explore potentials of intercorporeal weight sharing, kinesthesia, touch, and …

Dual process theories of creativity suggest that creative thought is supported by both a
generation phase, where unconstrained ideas are generated and combined in novel ways …

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 …