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Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ)

Are you curious about how AI would talk about creativity research of the real world? This podcast weaves together compelling findings from art, design, neuroscience, psychology, and AI to decode the creative mind. In each episode, two narrators share key insights and discoveries of a published paper or a book. Most of summaries and audio are generated by AI, via NotebookLM. It may still sometimes give inaccurate responses, so you may want to confirm any facts independently.

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00:14:53

Ep.118. Does Creative Learning Begin with Uncertainty?

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/05/06

"Uncertainty: A Necessary Condition for Creative Learning" by Ronald A. BeghettoSummaryThis document explores how uncertainty is essential for creative learning. It argues that encountering disruptions or new stimuli prompts a need to think and act differently, initiating the creative process. The paper defines creative learning as developing new and meaningful understandings through both individual sense-making and social interaction. Critically, the author highlights that creative

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00:09:24

Ep.117. Is Creativity a Trainable Daydream?

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2025/05/05

"What Types of Daydreaming Predict Creativity: Laboratory and Experience Sampling Evidence" by CM Zedelius, J Protzko, JM Broadway, JW SchoolerSummaryThis academic article investigates the intricate link between daydreaming and creativity. The researchers distinguish between various types of daydreaming and examine how individual differences in daydreaming styles, as well as fluctuations within individuals, relate to creative outcomes. Through laboratory tasks and real-world experience

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00:10:19

Ep.116. Can Different Daydreams Unlock Different...

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2025/05/04

"The Richness of Inner Experience: Relating Styles of Daydreaming to Creative Processes" by Claire M. Zedelius and Jonathan W. SchoolerSummaryThis academic paper explores the intricate link between daydreaming and creativity, arguing that a deeper understanding requires examining different creative processes and styles of daydreaming. It highlights the distinction between insight, which often feels sudden and resembles daydreaming, and analytic problem solving, a more deliberate and

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00:15:04

Ep.115. More Word Associations, More Creativity?

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2025/05/01

"Revisiting Mednick’s (1962) Theory of Creativity with a Composite Measure of Creativity: The Effect of Stimulus Type on Word Association Production" by Deana Vitrano, Jeanette Altarriba and Deniz Leblebici-BasarSummaryThis paper revisits Mednick's theory of creativity, which posits that more creative individuals generate a greater number of word associations. The study investigated this by using controlled lists of abstract and concrete, high and low-frequency words to assess word

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00:12:21

Ep.114. Association Theory of Mednick (1962)

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2025/05/01

"The Associative Basis of The Creative Process" by Sarnoff A. MednickSummaryThis academic paper proposes an associative interpretation of creative thinking, suggesting it involves forming new combinations of associative elements. The author outlines three ways these combinations can occur: through serendipity (accidental contiguity), similarity of elements, or mediation via common links. The text argues that individual differences in creativity stem from how easily individuals can bring remote ideas

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00:16:58

Ep.113. Is Creativity Memory Structure or Effective...

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2025/04/30

"Revisiting Mednick’s Model on Creativity-Related Differences in Associative Hierarchies. Evidence for a Common Path to Uncommon Thought"SummaryThis paper revisits Mednick's long-standing theory about creativity and how our minds link ideas. Mednick suggested that creative people have "flatter associative hierarchies," meaning they find less obvious connections between concepts more easily than others. The study tested this idea using word association tasks and found that

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00:12:22

Ep.112. How Creative the Current AIs are?

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2025/04/29

"The current state of artificial intelligence generative language models is more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks" by Kent F. Hubert, Kim N. Awa & Darya L. ZabelinaSummaryThis academic paper explores the creative potential of artificial intelligence, specifically GPT-4, compared to humans by using established divergent thinking tasks like the Alternative Uses Task, Consequences Task, and Divergent Associations Task. The researchers controlled for fluency (the number of

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00:14:31

Ep.111. Can peering into your brain networks predict...

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/04/28

"Network neuroscience of creative cognition: mapping cognitive mechanisms and individual differences in the creative brain" by Roger E Beaty, Paul Seli and Daniel L SchacterSummaryThis paper reviews recent advancements in network neuroscience that illuminate the neural basis of creative thinking, examining both the underlying cognitive mechanisms and individual differences in creativity. It highlights that creativity involves the interplay of large-scale brain networks, particularly

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00:14:01

Ep.110. Is Creativity Always in the Eye of the...

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2025/04/26

"Elements of a Universal Aesthetic of Creativity" by David Cropley and Arthur CropleySummaryThis source explores the complex idea of a universal aesthetic of creativity, seeking to identify common criteria for judging creative output across diverse fields like art and engineering. It argues that while creativity is a subjective aesthetic judgment, not an objective measurement, focusing on socially useful products provides a promising path to developing widely agreeable indicators. Key

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00:19:22

Ep.109. What Does the Structure of Intellect Reveal...

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/04/25

"The Structure of Intellect" by J. P. Guilford (1956)SummaryThis psychological paper by J. P. Guilford explores the complex nature of human intellect, proposing that it is not a single, unified ability but rather composed of numerous interconnected factors. Guilford presents a system categorising these factors, which number around forty, into areas like cognition (discovery), production (including convergent and divergent thinking), and evaluation, further differentiating them by the

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00:11:40

Ep.108. Is Executive Control the Hidden Link Between...

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/04/24

"Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity" by Mathias Benedek, Emanuel Jauk, Markus Sommer, Martin Arendasy, Aljoscha C. NeubauerSummaryThis research article explores the intricate relationships between intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control, specifically examining the role of executive functions. The authors investigated whether abilities like updating, shifting,

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00:11:48

Ep.107. Can Stepping Away Spark Brilliance?

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2025/04/23

"Creativity—the unconscious foundations of the incubation period" by Simone M. Ritter and Ap DijksterhuisSummaryThis scientific article, titled "Creativity—the unconscious foundations of the incubation period," delves into the cognitive process of creativity, specifically examining the role of the incubation period – a break from conscious problem-solving. The authors, Simone M. Ritter and Ap Dijksterhuis, review existing research on incubation, mind-wandering, and sleep to

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00:11:31

Ep.106. Does the Traditional Model of Creative...

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/04/22

"Wallas’ Four-Stage Model of the Creative Process: More Than Meets the Eye?" by Eugene Sadler-SmithSummaryThis academic article delves into Graham Wallas's influential four-stage model of the creative process: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, and Verification, initially presented in his 1926 work, The Art of Thought. The author, Eugene Sadler-Smith, argues that a closer examination of Wallas's writing reveals a more nuanced, five-stage model that explicitly

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00:11:48

Ep.105. Do Our Eyes Stare into Space or Actively...

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/04/21

"Looking for ideas: Eye behavior during goal-directed internally focused cognition" by Sonja Walcher, Christof Körner, Mathias BenedekSummaryThis research article, "Looking for ideas: Eye behavior during goal-directed internally focused cognition," investigates the relationship between eye movements and our internal thoughts when we are deliberately trying to generate ideas. The authors explore two main hypotheses: first, that when we focus internally, our eyes behave in ways that reduce distracting

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00:12:58

Ep.104. Does Pressure Fuel or Foil Innovation?

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2025/04/19

"Creativity Under the Gun" by Teresa M. Amabile, Constance N. Hadley, and Steven J. KramerSummaryThis Harvard Business Review article, "Creativity Under the Gun," explores the common assumption that time pressure enhances creative output, presenting research that largely contradicts this belief. The authors, Teresa M. Amabile, Constance N. Hadley, and Steven J. Kramer, utilise diary entries from knowledge workers to demonstrate that high time pressure generally hinders creative thinking, often

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00:17:31

Ep.103. Could Abstraction Hold the Key to Deeper...

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/04/18

"Four Mental Operations in Creative Cognition: The Importance of Abstraction" by Hans WellingSummaryThis academic paper, titled "Four Mental Operations in Creative Cognition: The Importance of Abstraction," published in the Creativity Research Journal, explores the fundamental cognitive processes underlying creative thinking. The author, Hans Welling, reviews existing creativity theories and proposes that four key mental operations account for creative cognition: application, analogy, combination,

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00:15:52

Ep.102. Motivations: Driven by Delight or Dollars?

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2025/04/17

"The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations" by Teresa M. Amabile, Karl G. Hill, Beth A. Hennessey, and Elizabeth M. TigheSummaryThis research paper introduces the Work Preference Inventory (WPI), a tool designed to measure individual differences in intrinsic motivation (driven by interest and enjoyment) and extrinsic motivation (driven by external rewards like recognition or money). The authors, led by Teresa Amabile, detail the development

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00:16:13

Ep.101. Don’t We Also Need to Define What Is Not...

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/04/16

"Defining Creativity: Don’t We Also Need to Define What Is Not Creative?" by Dean Keith Simonton (2016)SummaryThis academic paper argues that defining creativity adequately requires a simultaneous definition of what is not creative. The author introduces a three-parameter model to assess the potential creativity of an idea: its initial probability, its final utility, and the creator's prior knowledge of that utility. Using these parameters, the paper proposes a multiplicative

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00:17:14

Ep.100. (edited) Why Did the Study of Creativity Take...

Creativity Research Audio Journal (CRAJ) ·

2025/04/15

"Creativity" by J.P. Guilford (1950)SummaryThis document, the 1950 presidential address to the American Psychological Association by J. P. Guilford, highlights the significant neglect of creativity as a research topic within psychology at the time. Guilford argues against the prevailing notion that creativity is simply a facet of intelligence, proposing instead that it comprises a unique constellation of primary mental abilities. His address outlines a research programme based on factor analysis to

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00:12:53

Ep.99. Is There a 'Creativity Centre' in the Brain?

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2025/04/14

"Where do bright ideas occur in our brain? Meta-analytic evidence from neuroimaging studies of domain-specific creativity" by Maddalena Boccia, Laura Piccardi, Liana Palermo, Raffaella Nori and Massimiliano PalmieroSummaryThis research article investigates the brain regions associated with creativity across different cognitive domains. Through a meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, the authors sought to identify a multi-componential neural

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