Ever since Broca documented the relation between damage to the left hemisphere and
aphasia, claims have been made regarding the intellectual inferiority of the right …

Language is creative. One of the hallmarks of human language is that it is endlessly
generative. People use a small set of syntactic rules and a large, but finite, set of words to …

Comments on GR Hendren's (see record 1989-41228-001) article on using sign language to
access right-brain communication. Hendren's claim that the right hemisphere is in sole …

DURING THE last 150 years an enormous amount of information has been collected about
the way language is processed by the brain. The bulk of this information has been obtained …

We discuss cognitive bases for creative versus non-creative knowledge acquisition and
suggest neural substrates for these processes. Cognitive mechanisms driving the human …

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 …

Creativity and intelligence are arguably among the most central of human cognitive
capacities. As such, the last two decades have witnessed great interest in the investigation …

Recent developments in computerized scoring via semantic distance have provided
automated assessments of verbal creativity. Here, we extend past work, applying …

Psychological theories have suggested that creativity involves a twofold process
characterized by a generative component facilitating the production of novel ideas and an …

The human brain does a remarkable job of automatically shielding us from the potential
ambiguities of everyday situations. To appreciate just how good a job it does, try this simple …