To Trace a Creative Thought

Year: 2012 Authors: Brian Evans

Core claim

Creativity can be modeled as a small-world neural network process in which a tiny amount of randomness enables new metaphorical connections.

Topics

creative thought, conceptual metaphor, small-world networks, neural networks, cognitive insight

Domains

graph theory, network topology, Watts-Strogatz model, art theory, cognitive creativity, visualization

Methods

conceptual analysis, network modeling, diagrammatic visualization, literature synthesis

Media

network diagrams, ring lattice, random graph, small-world graph

Source status

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