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Creativity: an organizational schema.

Richard J Caselli1

  • 1Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, AZ 85259, USA. Caselli.Richard@Mayo.edu

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology : Official Journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology
|September 11, 2009
PubMed
Summary
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Human creativity bridges the gap between current reality and desired future states. This process involves motivation, perception, action, temperament, and social interaction, with underlying neurobiologic principles remaining consistent across individuals.

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Area of Science:

  • Neurobiology
  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroeconomics

Background:

  • Creativity is defined as novel and useful, but its characteristics (common/rare, domain-specific/general, quantitative/qualitative, personal/social) remain debated.
  • Existing research provides a foundation for understanding creativity but lacks a cohesive organizational schema.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an organizational schema for understanding human creativity.
  • To synthesize findings from multiple scientific disciplines to explain creative behavior.

Main Methods:

  • A novel synthesis of extant research from neurobiology, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroeconomics.
  • Analysis of factors contributing to creative behavior.

Main Results:

  • Creativity is defined as bridging the gap between the current state and a desired future state.
  • Five key factors interact to drive creativity: motivation, perception, action, temperament, and social interaction.
  • Individual creative phenotypes are shaped by a combination of innate predispositions and environmental influences.

Conclusions:

  • The fundamental neurobiologic principles underlying creative behavior are universal, despite individual variations in creative capacity.
  • Understanding these core principles offers a unified framework for studying creativity across diverse populations.