The “standard” definition of creativity as novel and useful describes creative products, but
creativity is constituted by processes. This misalignment contributes to the oft-noted …

Relational reasoning, the ability to discern meaningful patterns within otherwise
unconnected information, is regarded as central to human learning and cognition and as …

How does the mind produce creative ideas? Past research has pointed to important roles of
both executive and associative processes in creative cognition. But such work has largely …

The associative theory of creativity states that creativity is associated with differences in the
structure of semantic memory, whereas the executive theory of creativity emphasises the …

Solving problems often requires seeing new connections between concepts or events that
seemed unrelated at first. Innovative solutions of this kind depend on analogical reasoning …

Brain-based evidence has implicated the frontal pole of the brain as important for analogical
mapping. Separately, cognitive research has identified semantic distance as a key …

We investigated the hypothesis that individual differences in creative cognition can be
manifest even in brief responses, such as single-word utterances. Participants (n= 193) were …

Human reasoning and creativity represent perhaps the two highest evolutionary reaches of
cognition. These two capacities are distinct from each other, but research on creativity in …

Recent neuroimaging evidence indicates neural mechanisms that support transient
improvements in creative performance (augmented state creativity) in response to cognitive …

As a core cognitive skill that enables the transferability of information across domains,
analogical reasoning has been extensively studied for both humans and computational …