Creativity has long been thought to involve associative processes in memory: connecting
concepts to form ideas, inventions, and artworks. However, associative thinking has been …

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 …

Creativity has traditionally been considered an ability exclusive to human beings. However,
the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has resulted in generative AI chatbots that …

Several theories posit that creative people are able to generate more divergent ideas. If this
is correct, simply naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance …

Creativity research requires assessing the quality of ideas and products. In practice,
conducting creativity research often involves asking several human raters to judge …

Creative cognition does not just involve cognitive processes in direct service of the main task
objective (eg, idea generation), but also metacognitive processes that monitor and regulate …

Network science provides a set of quantitative methods to investigate complex systems,
including human cognition. Although cognitive theories in different domains are strongly …

Creative ideas likely result from searching and combining semantic memory knowledge, yet
the mechanisms acting on memory to yield creative ideas remain unclear. Here, we …

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

The open-ended and internally driven nature of curiosity makes characterizing the
information seeking that accompanies it a daunting endeavour. We use a historico …