Creative cognition: The diverse operations and the prospect of applying a cognitive neuroscience perspective
Creative cognition: The diverse operations and the prospect of applying a cognitive neuroscience perspective
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10.1016/j.ymeth.2006.12.007
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2007-05-01
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4.8
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Windmann, Sabine
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作者：
Abraham, Anna;Windmann, Sabine
在大多数词典中，创造力被简单地定义为“创造能力”，但在现实中，这是一个复杂而多样的结构，关于它有很多有待发现的地方。研究创造力的认知方法认识到并试图通过研究创造性思维中涉及的组成部分过程来理解这种复杂性。认知神经科学的方法只有限地应用于创造力的研究，理想地应该建立在这些想法的基础上，以揭示这些过程的神经基础。在介绍了创造性的早期实验思想和认知方法之后，我们讨论了测试创造性认知的各种过程的理论背景和行为方法，包括概念扩展、例子的约束性影响、创造性意象和洞察力。随后介绍了这些任务的原创性和相关性的基本组成部分过程之间的复杂关系。然后，我们概述了如何通过神经科学证据来评估其中一些概念上的区别，并阐述了在创造力研究中的神经心理学方法。鉴于目前的情况，我们的建议是，尽管研究创造力的方法存在困难，但采用认知神经科学的观点是一个非常有希望的框架，可以验证和扩展本文提出的关键问题。(C)2006 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
Creativity is defined quite simply as "the ability to create" in most lexicons, but, in reality, this is a complex and heterogeneous construct about which there is much to be discovered. The cognitive approach to investigating creativity recognizes and seeks to understand this complexity by investigating the component processes involved in creative thinking. The cognitive neuroscience approach, which has only limitedly been applied in the study of creativity, should ideally build on these ideas in uncovering the neural substrates of these processes. Following an introduction into the early experimental ideas and the cognitive approach to creativity, we discuss the theoretical background and behavioral methods for testing various processes of creative cognition, including conceptual expansion, the constraining influence of examples, creative imagery and insight. The complex relations between the underlying component processes of originality and relevance across these tasks are presented thereafter. We then outline how some of these conceptual distinctions can be evaluated by neuroscientific evidence and elaborate on the neuropsychological approach in the study of creativity. Given the current state of affairs, our recommendation is that despite methodological difficulties that are associated with investigating creativity, adopting the cognitive neuroscience perspective is a highly promising framework for validating and expanding on the critical issues that have been raised in this paper. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.