Abilities – Creativity – Giftedness

Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent

Creativity Abilities of Seventh Grade Pupils in Slovenian Elementary Schools

In the paper we present the findings of the empirical research study whose purpose was to monitor creativity abilities of seventh grade pupils in Slovenian elementary schools. More concretely, we monitored the levels of artistic-creative and artistic-formative development. The research sample consisted of 247 seventh graders in various elementary schools. We examined creativity abilities from t...

International perspectives on giftedness: Experimental and cultural observations of IQ and creativity with implications for curriculum and policy design

This special edition of the IEJ explores the cognitive, cultural, biological, social, emotional, and even spiritual notions of human abilities and the links with very advanced levels of intellectual functioning. In addition, this IEJ Edition’s twenty original papers include practical research findings, guidelines for curriculum design, for curriculum change, and for policy development. This art...

Mathematical Giftedness in the Brain

Humans, other mammals, and birds, all have a well-evolved sense of the numerosity of small sets of objects. However, our brains did not evolve to do mathematics. Instead, our brains learn mathematics at school by coordinating neural interconnectivity. Doing mathematics critically involves: • the lateral frontal cortices to support working memory; • the temporal cortices (and hippocampus) to rec...

Creativity. Creativity! Creativity?

Once we accept that there is something called creativity we are led to wonder how are the creative people and what are the creative acts. This wonderment compels us to understand the underlying cognitive process in a creative act and the hardware requirements for this process to go on. We then arrive at a position for seeking an implementable model of and the paradoxicalness involved therein. T...