• Lateral Thinking 

  de Bono, Edward (2010)

  In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then? Lateral thinking is all ...
• The roles of associative and executive processes in creative cognition 

  Beaty, Roger E.; Silvia, Paul J.; Nusbaum, Emily C.; Jauk, Emanuel; Benedek, Mathias (2014)

  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 focused on the influence of one ability ...
• The Wiley Handbook of Genius 

  Simonton, Dean Keith (2014)

  With contributions from a multi-disciplinary group of expert contributors, this is the first handbook to discuss all aspects of genius, a topic that endlessly provokes and fascinates. The first handbook to discuss all ...
• Serious Creativity 

  De Bono, Edward (1995)

  Serious creativity' will seem a contradiction in terms for many people. Everyone now knows that creativity has to be fun, lively and crazy – so how can we have serious creativity?
• Regressive Imagery in Creative Problem-Solving: Comparing Verbal Protocols of Expert and Novice Visual Artists and Computer Programmers 

  Kozbelt, Aaron; Dexter, Scott; Dolese, Melissa; Meredith, Daniel; Ostrofsky, Justin (2014)

  We applied computer-based text analyses of regressive imagery to verbal protocols of individuals engaged in creative problem-solving in two domains: visual art (23 experts, 23 novices) and computer programming (14 experts, ...
• The Study of the Phenomenon of Creativity in the Educational Environment 

  Palei, Tatyana; Salakhatdinova, Leisian (2014)

  The modern world has changed dramatically: now it is the world of increasing volatility, heterogeneity, diversity, and rapid changes. It has become a self-organizing system that goes out of a human control and imposes its ...
• Creativity and the Stroop interference effect 

  Edl, Susanne; Benedek, Mathias; Papousek, Ilona; Weiss, Elisabeth M.; Fink, Andreas (2014)

  Creative potential has been variably associated with disinhibition and defocused attention, focused attention and effective cognitive control, or a flexible adaption of cognitive control. The present study examined the ...

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