The creative cognition approach views creativity as the generation of novel and appropriate
products through the application of basic cognitive processes to existing knowledge …

Nothing is so frustrating as a mental impasse. For example, tip-of-the-tongue experiences,
those irritating failures to recall names of people one knows perfectly well, were described by …

Cognitive approaches to creativity are discussed as they relate to an important task of
entrepreneurs: generating novel and useful ideas for business ventures. Attention is given to the …

Creative Cognition combines original experiments with existing work in cognitive psychology
to provide the first explicit account of the cognitive processes and structures that contribute …

Creativity is one of a small set of cognitive capacities that clearly differentiate humans from
other species. The validity of this statement hinges on how one defines creativity, so we will …

College students imagined animals that might live on a planet somewhere else in the galaxy.
In the first experiment, they provided drawings and descriptions of their initial imagined …

In three experiments we tested the conformity hypothesis—that subjects' ideas would conform
to examples they had been shown—by using a creative generation paradigm in which …

Mental processes are the essence of creative endeavour. This text extends this particular
view of creativity, first proposed and developed by the editors in their earlier book Creative …

Several measures and methods developed by the field of cognitive science may prove
useful to researchers investigating various aspects of entrepreneurial cognition. These …

As in most other areas of cognitive psychology, research on concepts and categories has
provided a wealth of information about the more receptive aspects of cognition (eg, how …