Creativity has long been thought to involve associative processes in memory: connecting
concepts to form ideas, inventions, and artworks. However, associative thinking has been …

Creativity reflects the remarkable human capacity to produce novel and effective ideas.
Empirical work suggests that creative ideas do not just emerge out of nowhere but typically …

Creativity research requires assessing the quality of ideas and products. In practice,
conducting creativity research often involves asking several human raters to judge …

Societies are complex systems, which tend to polarize into subgroups of individuals with
dramatically opposite perspectives. This phenomenon is reflected—and often amplified—in …

Network science provides a set of quantitative methods to investigate complex systems,
including human cognition. Although cognitive theories in different domains are strongly …

Highlights•We outline a neurocognitive framework of creative cognition.•It focuses on the
role of memory, attention, and cognitive control.•It integrates evidence from cognitive and …

What happens in our brains when we compose a melody, write a poem, paint a picture, or
choreograph a dance sequence? How is this different from what occurs in the brain when …

The role of semantic memory in creativity is theoretically assumed, but far from understood.
In recent years, computational network science tools have been applied to investigate this …

This article reviews research on divergent thinking (DT) and the new methods that have
recently been developed. Special attention is given to the theory of Literal DT, where …

Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide
variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance. Examples include …