Musical training is becoming increasingly popular as a topic for scientific research. Here we
review the available studies investigating whether and to which degree musical experience …

This chapter provides a systematic, synthesizing, and critical review of the literature related
to assessments of creativity in education from historical, theoretical, empirical, and practical …

Creativity and the Performing Artist: Behind the Mask synthesizes and integrates research in
the field of creativity and the performing arts. Within the performing arts there are multiple …

Musical expertise has positive effects on cognition, especially on verbal and linguistic
processing. In this study the relationships between musical expertise, not involving …

Because of its fundamental relevance to scientific innovation, artistic expression, and human
ingenuity, creativity has long been the subject of systematic psychological investigation …

While the creative process has been the subject of intensive research, the manner in which
cognitive subprocesses interact during authentic creative production is not presently …

Although the majority of research investigating the creative process has focused on
divergent thinking, few studies have explored the role task-related divergent thinking has in …

Most research on the creative process has focused on idea generation, and the prevalence
and influence of many other creative subprocesses remain poorly understood. To clarify …

This exploratory research tests two competing general predictions: the expert-performance
literature predicting creatives will demonstrate greater creativity than others while the …

An important step in understanding domain-specific qualities of creativity is determining
what patterns exist in self-perceived creativity across domains and how these patterns …