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Does creativity decrease when invested in multiple areas?
There are two sources of creativity, the within-domain analogies and the between-domain analogies. Within-domain analogies are less original but more easy to apply and use. Between-domain analogies ...
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What challenges the ideasthesia balance theory has to answer?
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Ideaesthesia does not comprise a theory or even a hypothesis. It is merely a term meaning 'sensing concepts' or 'perceiving meaning'.
Background
As Steven Jeuris also comments, ...
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Does mindful meditation inhibit diffuse thinking (aka default mode network), creativity and make studying less effective?
That's a great question. I've wondered about this myself, given that some forms of meditation - particularly those that aim to exclusively focus on a particular object - seem to be the antithesis of ...
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How does architecture impact cognition and mental health?
I managed to find some newspaper articles and research that touch this topic, claiming that indeed more traditional architecture has positive influences on health and well-being, although these ...
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Do highly creative people dream more and/or differently than ordinary people?
There are some studies that seem to support your suggestion e.g.:
Dream reports and creative tendencies in students of the arts, sciences, and engineering (paywalled, so I'm quoting the abstract):
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Math understanding: intuitions and proofs
Some master mathematicians have written on the process of mathematical invention and on some methods of plausible reasoning in mathematics.
Here are some references:
Jacques Hadamard. An Essay on the ...
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Math understanding: intuitions and proofs
I think it is important here to be clear about what John is really capable of doing. If all he is able to do is manipulate the axioms of S correctly, this actually does not get him very far, for at ...
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Does Computer science has any role to play in Cognitive science?
Yes. Computer science is one of central disciplines of cognitive science. In fact, the dominant, central dogma of modern (i.e., the last 50 years) cognitive science is that cognition is computation. ...
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What was creativity called before the 1950s, i.e. before Guilford coined the term?
Let me open this by saying that it's not clear to me that Guilford coined the term, as the Google n-gram viewer shows use well before 1950:
Freud wrote an essay on creative writers (and day-dreaming) ...
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How does the L-game by Edward de Bono demonstrate lateral thinking?
The idea is not to use lateral thinking to win the game, but to teach people to think laterally.
The L can be flipped and/or rotated as well as translated - why should you do a particular transform, ...
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Observations on the role of iteration time in creative work
I found this paper that discusses 1980's work by IBM studying the response time of interactive computers.
J. T. Brady, "A Theory of Productivity in the Creative Process," in IEEE Computer ...
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Does the lexical hypothesis have any role in 'creativity'?
Jauk et al. (2013) talks about the relationship between intelligence and creativity whilst King, et al. (1996) talks about the the relationship between the 5-factor model and creativity.
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Why am I more "musically" creative in the last 30 seconds before falling asleep?
The brain is a complex system, that is to say one made of many (more or less) discrete components, each performing a specific function. These components are connected and work together. During ...
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What are some theories or cognitive models of human imagination?
Assuming imagination can be roughly defined as "taking things from reality/experience and mixing them up somehow to create something dissimilar from the inputs", then any cognitive framework:
with a ...
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