Creative thought as blind-variation and selective-retention: combinatorial models of exceptional creativity

Dean Keith Simonton

doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2010.05.004

Creative thought as blind-variation and selective-retention: combinatorial models of exceptional creativity

Phys Life Rev. 2010 Jun;7(2):190-4. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2010.05.004. Epub 2010 May 11.

Author

Dean Keith Simonton¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. dksimonton@ucdavis.edu

PMID: 20472515
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2010.05.004

Abstract

Both positive and negative comments are discussed with the aim of stimulating future theoretical and empirical research on BVSR models of creativity, including combinatorial models.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Brain / physiology*
Cognition / physiology*
Creativity*
Humans
Memory / physiology*
Models, Neurological*
Thinking / physiology*