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 …

Creative cognition does not just involve cognitive processes in direct service of the main task
objective (eg, idea generation), but also metacognitive processes that monitor and regulate …

The “standard” definition of creativity as novel and useful describes creative products, but
creativity is constituted by processes. This misalignment contributes to the oft-noted …

New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it
enables are directly dependent on social-emotional experience. Growing bodies of research …

" Psychological trauma can be a life-changing experience that affects multiple facets of
health and well-being. The nature of trauma is to impact the mind and body in unpredictable …

Most research on mind-wandering has characterized it as a mental state with contents that
are task unrelated or stimulus independent. However, the dynamics of mind-wandering …

Creative thinking is central to the arts, sciences, and everyday life. How does the brain
produce creative thought? A series of recently published papers has begun to provide …

What happens in our brains when we compose a melody, write a poem, paint a picture, or
choreograph a dance sequence? How is this different from what occurs in the brain when …

Mental time travel (MTT) is defined as projecting the self into the past and the future. Despite
growing evidence of the similarities of remembering past and imagining future events …

Creativity is a complex construct that would benefit from a more comprehensive mechanistic
approach. Two processes have been defined to be central to creative cognition: divergent …