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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"creative thought"”.
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Essays on attention and creative thought
In the mental life of an ordinary person, creative thoughts, as well as other non-rigid forms of thought, such as mind wandering, are both pervasive and important for our cognitive endeavors. The goal of my dissertation is to provide a theory of these non-rigid forms of thought by understanding …
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Fragments, as I Remember
… support paper is written as both a journal of my creative thought process and an exposition of the research that thematically contextualizes my work. The paper indirectly unpacks specific elements that inform and inspire this work. It is a journal intended to contextualize my creative practices …
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MIDI Gesamtkunstwerk and a schema for creative design
"MIDI Gesamtkunstwerk and a Schema for Creative Design" formulates a model for creative thought and examines its impact when applied to the making of art. Use of the Schema as a system of design has propelled my work from sculpture to multimedia performance, specifically under computer control. …
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Playable Ground
… playgrounds, which should serve as catalysts for creative thought and action in children, are limited in their sameness. Furthermore, the playground structures, which are manufactured in bulk and then bolted onto the ground at their final destinations, have little connection to their sites. I …
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Positive and neutral mood inductions: ties to creativity
… memories that depicted positive mood and/or creative moments. This experiment had a 2(mood induction positive/neutral) X 2(creativity induction yes/no) design, and 112 participants in four condi tions: 22 in the first, 33 in the second, 25 in the third, and 32 in the fourth. Mood and …
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Kaleido : individualistic visual interfaces for software development environments
… of reconciling and shifting between individual creative thought and rigid conceptual models of code. Despite advances of programming support tools, the discrepancy between the contextual specificity of the author's intent and the uniformity of program structure still causes people to find the …
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The Story Art and Tech
… A storyboard primarily shows the audience the thought process of storytelling; it previsualizes a script or an idea. It is then narrated into moving images called animatics; a preliminary version of a film. Animatics are important references for animators to animate shots and characters. …
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Creative Aging: Functional Neural Networks Associated with Creativity in Aging
… and real-world functional abilities. Creative ability has been implicated in successful aging including psychological, social, spiritual and, cognitive functioning (Duhamel, 2016). Creative thinking is associated with connectivity between default and executive control regions in the …
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The act and activities of invention: an autobiographical phenomenological case study of a visualizing inventor
… experience by capturing the perceptible thoughts, feelings, emotions, and actions that occur during the development of a Patentable Invention. The author, subject of the study, is an experienced inventor with numerous Patents issued and pending. The invention produced during this research …
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Affective website design
… are critical to learning, curiosity, and creative thought, and today research is turning toward this dimension (Norman, 2004b: 19). To understand users' negative emotions can supply a better solution for design problems. Both users' likes and dislikes are important when exploring the role …
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Fostering creativity through the use of digital tablets (an investigation into the potential of tablet use for creative production among seven- to ten-year-old children in Malta)
… of a method that can engage children in creative production with digital tablets as a form of self-organised and interdisciplinary learning in the classroom. Qualitative and quantitative methods are used to map the current use of digital devices among seven- to ten-year-old children in …
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Inspiration and Novelty: Creativity and the Modularity of Mind
… explanation of the origin of novelty in creative thought. Darwinian evolution by natural selection explains the origin of novelty in the biological sphere, and theories of creativity drawing an analogy with evolution are examined. It is concluded that whereas creativity clearly shares …
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The effects of short term interpersonal cognitive problem solving therapy with young children
… theories, especially Vygotsky’s conception of thought development and Crick and Dodge’s (1994) social information processing model. A developmental relationship between AST and CT is suggested and it is argued that AST may be a form of creative thought. Implications of the results for education …
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‘A Continual Song Out of Merely Being Here’: Environment and Interiority in Some Contemporary British Poetry and Natural Phenomena
… experiences a porous reciprocity between her thought, perception and language and that of her social and physical environment, and that this has implications for any written presentation of ‘nature’ – a contested term that is explored via Timothy Morton’s thinking about environmental …
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Physical design cognition : an analytical study of exploratory model making to inform creative robotic interaction
… which limits the body's capability of generating creative thought through material interaction. If theories from the field of cognitive science about embodied cognition are true, then there is opportunity to rethink how CAD-CAM technologies can better harness the bodily based thinking involved in …
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Reflections on the History of Creativity
… concept and field of study. Sources document the creative activities of humans from prehistory through the present day. Man's interest in studying and understanding creativity is a fairly recent phenomenon. This process of exploration and analysis in the last 300 years are also covered.</p> …
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Creative Caprice: Intrinsic Interest; States of Consciousness; Emotion & Practice-led Phenomenological Inquiry
… of how strong emotion influences my creative actions. Through the development and articulation of a methodology for facilitating creative activity, the project considers how these emotions determine which intrinsic interests compel me to create works of art and design. Fundamental to …
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Algorithm and Decision in Musical Composition
Through a series of creative projects this doctorate set out to research how computer-assisted composition (CAC) of music affects decision-making in my compositional practice. By reporting on the creative research journey, this doctorate is a contribution towards a better understanding of the …
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The dynamic cognitive processes underlying creativity
… that several core cognitive processes underlie creative thought, such as problem finding, information gathering, incubation, idea generation, evaluation, and implementation. Although multiple studies have investigated these processes individually, few researchers have observed the joint impact …