Associative thinking at the core of creativity

RE Beaty, YN Kenett - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Creativity has long been thought to involve associative processes in memory: connecting
concepts to form ideas, inventions, and artworks. However, associative thinking has been …

The role of memory in creative ideation

M Benedek, RE Beaty, DL Schacter… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Creativity reflects the remarkable human capacity to produce novel and effective ideas.
Empirical work suggests that creative ideas do not just emerge out of nowhere but typically …

Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models

P Organisciak, S Acar, D Dumas… - Thinking Skills and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Automated scoring for divergent thinking (DT) seeks to overcome a key obstacle to creativity
measurement: the effort, cost, and reliability of scoring open-ended tests. For a common test …

Divergent semantic integration (DSI): Extracting creativity from narratives with distributional semantic modeling

DR Johnson, JC Kaufman, BS Baker… - Behavior Research …, 2023 - Springer
We developed a novel conceptualization of one component of creativity in narratives by
integrating creativity theory and distributional semantics theory. We termed the new …

The language of creativity: Evidence from humans and large language models

W Orwig, ER Edenbaum, JD Greene… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent developments in computerized scoring via semantic distance have provided
automated assessments of verbal creativity. Here, we extend past work, applying …

AuDrA: An automated drawing assessment platform for evaluating creativity

JD Patterson, B Barbot, J Lloyd-Cox… - Behavior research methods, 2024 - Springer
The visual modality is central to both reception and expression of human creativity. Creativity
assessment paradigms, such as structured drawing tasks Barbot, seek to characterize this …

Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance

AH Horowitz, K Esfahany, TV Gálvez, P Maes… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The link between dreams and creativity has been a topic of intense speculation. Recent
scientific findings suggest that sleep onset (known as N1) may be an ideal brain state for …

Automatic scoring of metaphor creativity with large language models

PV DiStefano, JD Patterson… - Creativity Research …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Metaphor is crucial in human cognition and creativity, facilitating abstract thinking,
analogical reasoning, and idea generation. Typically, human raters manually score the …

Testing the domain specificity of creativity with Kaufman domains of creativity scale: A meta‐analytic confirmatory factor analysis

S Acar, E Cevik, E Fesli, RN Bozkurt… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Domain‐specificity is a topic of debate within the field of creativity. To shed light on this
issue, we conducted a meta‐analysis of cross‐domain correlations based on the Kaufman …

Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.

JD Patterson, HM Merseal, DR Johnson… - … , Creativity, and the …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of
responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual …