‘Unexpected artistic creativity’

[Hallucinogenic drugs and artistic creativity].

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...

Unexpected development of artistic talents.

The development of exceptional and unexpected artistic skills at any age must be a matter of curiosity. This can occur among young children with severe learning difficulties, especially if they are autistic. Some examples of these so called idiot-savants are given, and the way in which their brains may function. It is also true that elderly people who suffer from frontotemporal dementia can fin...

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...

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...