The Book
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.
The Author(s)
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.
Table of Contents
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