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 …

Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content

AR Doshi, OP Hauser - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Creativity is core to being human. Generative artificial intelligence (AI)—including powerful
large language models (LLMs)—holds promise for humans to be more creative by offering …

[HTML][HTML] Creativity and artificial intelligence—A student perspective

R Marrone, V Taddeo, G Hill - Journal of Intelligence, 2022 - mdpi.com
Creativity is a core 21st-century skill taught globally in education systems. As Artificial
Intelligence (AI) is being implemented in classrooms worldwide, a key question is proposed …

Brain connectivity–based prediction of real-life creativity is mediated by semantic memory structure

M Ovando-Tellez, YN Kenett, M Benedek… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Associative theories of creativity argue that creative cognition involves the abilities to
generate remote associations and make useful connections between unrelated concepts in …

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 …

Large language model in creative work: The role of collaboration modality and user expertise

Z Chen, J Chan - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Since the launch of ChatGPT in December 2022, large language models (LLMs) have been
rapidly adopted by businesses to assist users in a wide range of open-ended tasks …

Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation

S Zhong, Z Huang, S Gao, W Wen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Chain-of-Thought (CoT) guides large language models (LLMs) to reason step-by-
step and can motivate their logical reasoning ability. While effective for logical tasks CoT is …

The current state of artificial intelligence generative language models is more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks

KF Hubert, KN Awa, DL Zabelina - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of publicly accessible artificial intelligence (AI) large language models such
as ChatGPT has given rise to global conversations on the implications of AI capabilities …

AuDrA: An automated drawing assessment platform for evaluating creativity

JD Patterson, B Barbot, J Lloyd-Cox… - Behavior Research …, 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 …