TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints2546
UR  - http://cogprints.org/2546/
A1  - Gabora, Liane
Y1  - 2002///
N2  - This paper proposes an explanation of the cognitive change that occurs as the creative process proceeds. During the initial, intuitive phase, each thought activates, and potentially retrieves information from, a large region containing many memory locations. Because of the distributed, content-addressable structure of memory, the diverse contents of these many locations merge to generate the next thought. Novel associations often result. As one focuses on an idea, the region searched and retrieved from narrows, such that the next thought is the product of fewer memory locations. This enables a shift from association-based to causation-based thinking, which facilitates the fine-tuning and manifestation of the creative work.

PB  - acm Press
KW  - Associative hierarchy
KW  -  bisociation
KW  -  brainstorm
KW  -  concepts
KW  -  conjunction
KW  -  context
KW  -  creativity
KW  -  defocused attention
KW  -  distributed representation
KW  -  emergent features
KW  -  evaluation
KW  -  focus
KW  -  generativity
KW  -  idea
KW  -  impossibilist creativity
KW  -  intuition
KW  -  variable focus.

TI  - Cognitive mechanisms underlying the creative process
SP  - 126
AV  - public
EP  - 133
ER  -

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