Cognition, Experience and Creativity

This book aims to showcase some of the recent developments in the areas of research in creativity and experience. The collection of essays embraces both theoretical and empirical approaches and tries to understand the complexity underlying creativity and its social, cultural and biological underpinnings.

Contents: Introduction. Section I: Theoretical approaches to experience and creativity. 1. Creativity and consciousness/Sam Coleman. 2. A model of creative perceptual experience/Mainak Pal, Dana Sugu and Amita Chatterjee. 3. Computational models of creativity: taking early cognitive development seriously/Georgi Stojanov. 4. Reporting experience: the role of the self/Hari Narayanan. Section II: Language and creativity. 5. Creativity: gap analysis/Mark T. Keane. 6. The ABCs of XYZs: Creativity and conservativity in humorous Epithets/Tony Veale. 7. Jungian archetypes: visual metaphors of psychological process/Ilaria Anzoise.