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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.

Jaison A. Manjaly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.

Bipin Indurkhya has taught in universities in the US and IIIT-Hyderabad, where he helped set up a cognitive science laboratory. He currently teaches at the University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland.

List of Tables and Figures vii
Introduction xi
Section I
Theoretical approaches toExperience and Creativity
1. Creativity and Consciousness 5
    Sam Coleman
2. A Model of ‘Creative’ Perceptual Experience 35
   Mainak Pal, Dana Sugu and Amita Chatterjee
3. Computational Models of Creativity: 63Taking Early Cognitive Development Seriously
   Georgi Stojanov
4. Reporting Experience: The Role of the Self 89
   Hari Narayanan

Section II
Language and Creativity
5. Creativity: Gap Analysis 108
    Mark T. Keane
6. The ABCs of XYZs: Creativity and Conservativity in Humorous Epithets 135
   Tony Veale
7. Jungian Archetypes: Visual Metaphors of Psychological Process 155
   Ilaria Anzoise