Thagard, P. (forthcoming). Artistic genius and creative cognition. INTRODUCTION There are highly creative people in all domains of human productivity, including scientific discovery, technological invention, social innovation, and artistic imagination. All of these kinds of creativity require mental operations that generate ideas and other products that are both new and valuable. The main quest...

Princess Vera's grave in the Korchevatskii cemetery on the outskirts ofKiev is marked by a metal cross in the Catholic rather than the Russian Orthodox style, befitting her Catholic origins tuberculosis of the knee.'9 In 1929 she was appointed professor ofsurgery at the University ofKiev. This was quite an achievement for a princess. She had started to write her memoirs, which were very fiction...

OBJECTIVE It is widely believed among professionals and laity that genius is born and not made. However, the early and still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius have neither been supported nor definitively refuted. This study empirically assesses the hereditary transmission hypothesis. METHODS We collected family background data on 50 Nobel Prize lau...

IN a letter to the "'British Medical Journal'' of September 10, 1921, 'Mr. S. T. Irwin dealt with the relation between chroniic infections and mental activity. He stated: "Many substances, toxic in large doses, act merely as stimulanits when adnministered in normal amounts. If wte assumne that, in a case of moderate tuberculous infectioni, small amounts of tuberculini are bein,,constantlNabsorb...

2 as a critical element of the United States patent system. The requirement mandates that, at the time of invention, an invention must not have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art. In effect, this screens routine improvements out of the patent system and rewards inventions perceived to be scientific breakthroughs. Recent Supreme Court cases developing non-obviousness highl...

The gossip mechanism could support reliable and scalable communication in large-scale settings. In large-scale peer-to-peer environment, however, each node could only have partial knowledge of the group membership. More seriously, because the node has no global knowledge about the underlying topology, gossip mechanism incurs much unnecessary network overhead on the Internet. In this paper, we p...