Mind the Gap: An attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativity
Creativity is the hallmark of human cognition, yet scientific understanding of creative processes is limited. However, there is increasing interest in revealing the neural correlates of human creativity. Though many of these studies, pioneering in nature, help demystification of creativity, but the...
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| author | Geraint eWiggins Joydeep eBhattacharya |
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| description | Creativity is the hallmark of human cognition, yet scientific understanding of creative processes is limited. However, there is increasing interest in revealing the neural correlates of human creativity. Though many of these studies, pioneering in nature, help demystification of creativity, but the field is still dominated by popular beliefs in associating creativity with right brain thinking, divergent thinking, altered states and so on (Dietrich and Kanso, 2010) . In this article, we discuss a computational framework for creativity based on Baars' global workspace theory (Baars, 1988) enhanced with mechanisms based on information theory. Next we propose a neurocognitive architecture of creativity with a strong focus on various facets (i.e., unconscious thought theory, mind wandering, spontaneous brain states) of un/pre-conscious brain responses. Our principal argument is that pre-conscious creativity happens prior to conscious creativity happens prior to conscious creativity and the proposed computational model may provide a mechanism by which this transition is managed. This integrative approach, albeit unconventional, will hopefully stimulate future neuroscientific studies of the inscrutable phenomenon of creativity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4574accd956a49659286188fb4087b192022-12-22T01:25:10ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612014-07-01810.3389/fnhum.2014.0054056498Mind the Gap: An attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativityGeraint eWiggins0Joydeep eBhattacharya1Queen Mary, University of LondonGoldsmiths, University of LondonCreativity is the hallmark of human cognition, yet scientific understanding of creative processes is limited. However, there is increasing interest in revealing the neural correlates of human creativity. Though many of these studies, pioneering in nature, help demystification of creativity, but the field is still dominated by popular beliefs in associating creativity with right brain thinking, divergent thinking, altered states and so on (Dietrich and Kanso, 2010) . In this article, we discuss a computational framework for creativity based on Baars' global workspace theory (Baars, 1988) enhanced with mechanisms based on information theory. Next we propose a neurocognitive architecture of creativity with a strong focus on various facets (i.e., unconscious thought theory, mind wandering, spontaneous brain states) of un/pre-conscious brain responses. Our principal argument is that pre-conscious creativity happens prior to conscious creativity happens prior to conscious creativity and the proposed computational model may provide a mechanism by which this transition is managed. This integrative approach, albeit unconventional, will hopefully stimulate future neuroscientific studies of the inscrutable phenomenon of creativity.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00540/fullPsychologycomputational modelingcreativityNeurosciencemethodology |
| spellingShingle | Geraint eWiggins Joydeep eBhattacharya Mind the Gap: An attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativity Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Psychology computational modeling creativity Neuroscience methodology |
| title | Mind the Gap: An attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativity |
| title_full | Mind the Gap: An attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativity |
| title_fullStr | Mind the Gap: An attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mind the Gap: An attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativity |
| title_short | Mind the Gap: An attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativity |
| title_sort | mind the gap an attempt to bridge computational and neuroscientific approaches to study creativity |
| topic | Psychology computational modeling creativity Neuroscience methodology |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00540/full |
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