1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition
The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition is an authoritative reference work that offers a well-balanced overview of current scholarship across the full breadth of the rapidly expanding field of creative cognition. It contains 43 chapters written by world-leading researchers, covering foundational issues and concepts as well as state-of-the-art research developments.
The handbook draws extensively on contemporary work exploring the cognitive representations and processes associated with creativity, whether studied in the laboratory or as it arises in real-world practice in domains such as education, art, science, entrepreneurship, design, and technological innovation. Chapters also examine the sociocognitive and cultural aspects of creativity in teams and organisations, while additionally capturing the latest research on the cognitive neuroscience of creativity.
Providing a compelling synopsis of emerging trends and debates in the field of creative cognition and positioning these in relation to established findings and theories, this text provides a clear sense of the way in which new research is challenging traditional viewpoints. It is an essential reading for researchers in the field of creative cognition as well as advanced students wishing to learn more about the latest developments in this important and rapidly growing area of enquiry.
1. Divergent Thinking as Creative Cognition
Mark A. Runco
2. Measuring Creativity with the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT)
Karl K. Jeffries
3. Constraints and Creativity: Classifying, Balancing, and Managing Constraints
Balder Onarheim and Dagný Valgeirsdóttir
4. The Role of Serendipity in Creative Cognition
Wendy Ross and Selene Arfini
5. The Two Faces of Curiosity in Creative Cognition: Curiosity1, Curiosity2 (and their Interaction)
Janet Metcalfe and William James Jacobs
6. Thinking Wide and Narrow: A ‘Cultural Creative Cognition’ Approach to Possibility thinking
Vlad P. Glăveanu
7. Analogy and the Transfer of Creative Insights
Thomas C. Ormerod
8. Creative Cognition: From Ideation to Innovation
Nathaniel Barr, Lucas Klein, Michael J. McNamara, and Kelly Peters
9. Insight in the Kinenoetic Field
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
Part II: Reflections on the Nature of Creative Cognition as Revealed through Traditional Methodologies
10. Idea Generation and Associative Memory
Richard W. Hass
11. Creatively Searching through Semantic Memory Structure: A Short Integrative Review
Yoed N. Kenett
12. Mental Imagery and Creative Cognition
David G. Pearson
13. Incubation
Ken Gilhooly
14. Of Night and Light and the Half-Light: The Role of Multidimensions of Emotion and Tolerance of Uncertainty in Creative Flow
Genevieve M. Cseh
15. Problem-Solving, Collaboration, and Creativity
Jennifer Wiley and Olga Goldenberg
16. Metaphoric Creativity as Embodied Performance in Social Interaction
Thomas Jensen
17. Analyzing Changing Patterns of External Reference Use from Informal Lab Group Presentations to Formal Colloquia
Christian D. Schunn, Lelyn D. Saner and Susannah Paletz
18. Measuring Judgment and Decision-making in Developmental Samples: Assessment of the Generation of Cognitively Sophisticated Responses and Implications for the Study of Creative Cognition
Jala Rizeq and Maggie E. Toplak
19. The Phenomenology of Insight: The Aha! Experience
Amory H. Danek
20. Reconcilable Differences: Working Memory Capacity Both Supports and Hinders Insight
Marci S. DeCaro and Charles A. Van Stockum, Jr.
21. Comparing Theoretical and Computational Models of Insight: Investigating Cognitive and Phenomenological Perspectives
Margaret E. Webb
22. Collaborative Meta-reasoning in Creative Contexts: Advancing an Understanding of Collaborative Monitoring and Control in Creative Teams
Beth H. Richardson, Linden J. Ball, Bo T. Christensen, and John E. Marsh
Part III: Reflections on the Nature of Creative Cognition as Revealed through Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches
23. An Archaeological Perspective on Creative Cognition
Frederick L. Coolidge
24. The Role of Semantic versus Episodic Memory in Creative Cognition
Halima Ahmed, Kata Pauly-Takacs, Anna Abraham
25. Network Neuroscience of Domain-General and Domain-Specific Creativity
Roger E. Beaty, Hannah M. Merseal, and Daniel C. Zeitlen
26. A Closer Look at Transitions Between the Generative and Evaluative Phases of Creative Thought
Andre Zamani, Caitlin Mills, Manesh Girn, and Kalina Christoff
27. Markers of Insight
Carola Salvi
28. A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Insight as a Memory Process: Searching for the Solution
Maxi Becker, Roberto Cabeza, and Jasmin M. Kizilirmak
29. A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Insight as a Memory Process: Encoding the Solution
Jasmin M. Kizilirmak and Maxi Becker
Part IV: Reflections on Creative Cognition from Pedagogical, Organisational, Archaeological and Post-Phenomenological Perspectives
30. Creativity in Education
Mary A. Simonsen and Jonathan A. Plucker
31. Creative Learning: A Pedagogical Perspective
Ronald A. Beghetto and Ananí M. Vasquez
32. Tool Use and Creativity
Chris Baber
33. Art Through Material Engagement…and Vice Versa
Paul March and Lambros Malafouris
34. Creativity as a Discursive Construct
Darryl Hocking
35. Collaborative Creativity: Information-driven Coordination Dynamics and Prediction in Movement and Musical Improvisation
Travis J. Wiltshire and Merle Fairhurst
36. Common Creativity
Karenleigh A. Overmann
Part V: Reflections on Creative Cognition in Domains Involving Creativity and Innovation
37. Team Cognition and Team Creativity
Roni Reiter-Palmon and Payge Japp
38. Creative Cognition in Engineering and Technology
David H. Cropley
39. Creative Cognition and Entrepreneurship
Bo T. Christensen
40. Creative Cognition in Advertising
Wangbing Shen, Linden J. Ball, and Beth H. Richardson
41. The Creative Generation and Appreciation of Artistic Artifacts in the Visual Domain
Oshin Vartanian
42. Individual Innovation and Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Mapping of Creative Cognition
Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau, Evy Sakellariou, and Fanni Szigetvari
Part VI: Reflections on the Paradoxical Misalignment Between Findings that Derive from In Vivo Versus In Vitro Research on Creative Cognition
43. A Quandary in the Study of Creativity: Conflicting Findings from Case Studies versus the Laboratory
Robert W. Weisberg
Biography
Linden J. Ball is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. He is interested in the role of meta-cognitive monitoring and control in thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, and creativity. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology and Associate Editor of Thinking & Reasoning. He is also the Editor of the Current Issues in Thinking & Reasoning book series (Routledge) and Co-Editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Thinking & Reasoning (2018).
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau is Professor of Psychology at Kingston University, London, UK. Recent projects on creative problem-solving have drawn inspiration from William James and Bruno Latour. He co-edited (with Stephen Cowley) Cognition Beyond the Brain (Second edition, 2017), and he also edited Insight: On the Origins of New Ideas (Routledge, 2018). He is the author of Systemic Creative Cognition: Bruno Latour for Creativity Researchers (Routledge, 2023).
