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Benedek, Mathias; Neubauer, Aljoscha C. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2013
Fifty years ago, Mednick ["Psychological Review", 69 (1962) 220] proposed an elaborate model that aimed to explain how creative ideas are generated and why creative people are more likely to have creative ideas. The model assumes that creative people have flatter associative hierarchies and as a consequence can more fluently retrieve…
Descriptors: Models, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Comparative Analysis
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Yu, Chen; Ballard, Dana H.; Aslin, Richard N. – Cognitive Science, 2005
We examine the influence of inferring interlocutors' referential intentions from their body movements at the early stage of lexical acquisition. By testing human participants and comparing their performances in different learning conditions, we find that those embodied intentions facilitate both word discovery and word-meaning association. In…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Testing, Comparative Analysis, Learning Processes