Combinatorial creativity involves the creation of new ideas (and, if realized, artefacts) by exploring atypical combinations of familiar ideas. In this paper we explore the relationship between word-level creativity and artefact-level creativity in a computational system dubbed “Gastronaut” that explores the food domain. Cookery is both a paradigm example, and a metaphor, for combinatorial crea...

From what perspective should creativity of a system be considered? Are we interested in the creativity of the system’s output? The creativity of the system itself? Or of its creative processes? Creativity as measured by internal features or by external feedback? Traditionally within computational creativity the focus had been on the creativity of the system’s Products or of its Processes, thoug...

How are computers typically perceived in co-creativity scenarios? And how does this affect how we evaluate computational creativity research systems that use cocreativity? Recent research within computational creativity considers how to attribute creativity to computational agents within co-creative scenarios. Human evaluation forms a key part of such attribution or evaluation of creative contr...

One of the most contentious areas:in creativity theory is the question of domain specificity. How we conceptualize creativityas something that transcends content domains, or as something that varies depending on the domain in question has important implications for both creativity research and creativity training programs. The Amusement Park Theoretical (APT) model of creativity is the first cr...

We examine the black box of creativity, entrepreneurship and economic development by asking about the mechanisms through which creativity can influence economic development in cities. We propose that, like the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, creativity spillovers occur and can be slowed by a creativity filter. We examine how creativity and entrepreneurship, and creativity and a ...

T hroughout history, creativity has been an important factor for cultural and technological evolution. Artists, writers, musicians, scientists, inventors and others have practiced their creativity individually and in collaborations with others. Depending on the political and socioeconomic environment in different societies creativity has been celebrated during certain periods and suffocated dur...

We examine the black box of creativity, entrepreneurship and economic development by asking about the mechanisms through which creativity can influence economic development in cities. We propose that, like the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, creativity spillovers occur and can be slowed by a creativity filter. We examine how creativity and entrepreneurship, and creativity and a ...

An abnormal facilitation of the spreading activation within semantic networks is thought to under-lie schizophrenics' remote associations and referential ideas. In normal subjects, elevated magical ideation (MI) has also been associated with a style of thinking similar to that of schizotypal subjects. We thus wondered whether normal subjects with a higher MI score would judge "loose association...

This study investigates the relationship between creative thinking ability and creative personality of preschoolers. Prior research showed that the correlation coefficient between creative thinking ability and creative personality of teenagers was very low (Hah, 1999), so this research was undertaken to validate the test and to examine how preschoolers would be influenced by sex and age variabl...

Four experiments examined the interplay of memory and creative cognition, showing that attempting to think of new uses for an object can cause the forgetting of old uses. Specifically, using an adapted version of the Alternative Uses Task (Guilford, 1957), participants studied several uses for a variety of common household objects before attempting to generate new uses for half of those objects...