Creativity as Improvisation: Existential and Artistic Aspects

Neuropsychological Aspects of Artistic Creativity

Most traditional neuropsychological work concerns aspects of cognition in the most ordinary sense: how the average person perceives and represents the world, and how she acts in response to what is perceived or felt. The extraordinary perception and action of artists has been a subject of fascination for some neuropsychologists at least since Alajouanine, but little systematic work has been don...

[Hallucinogenic drugs and artistic creativity].

Computational Artistic Creativity and its Evaluation

In most cases, people judge creativity by evaluating the resulting artifact, after the productive behavior has been completed. Hence, we will concentrate on the artifact here. However, sometimes the artistic process is inferable by the evaluator, perhaps due to some attributes of the artifact, or sometimes it’s even observable. Colton (2008) argues that art is identified as more creative if the...

A Creativity Model for Teaching Stylistic Improvisation

This paper a) examines the nature of creative thinking in musical improvisation, b) examines music teachers 'confidence in their inprovisation abilities and c) proposes a model for teaching stylistic improvisation. First, factor analysis of improvisations of college jazz singers indicates that divergent thinking, as exemplified through variety, originality and elaboration of musical ideas, is l...

How Copying Artwork Affects Students’ Artistic Creativity

30 undergraduates participated individually in a threeday-drawing experiment. It was explored whether an experience copying others’ drawing facilitated subjects’ artistic creativity. Results showed that drawings by subjects who previously had copied others’ drawings were rated more creative than the drawings of subjects who had not copied. Two further analyses revealed how subjects could produc...