A Semantic Network Cartography of the Creative Mind

Yoed N Kenett; Miriam Faust

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.01.007

A Semantic Network Cartography of the Creative Mind

Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 Apr;23(4):271-274. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.01.007. Epub 2019 Feb 23.

Authors

Yoed N Kenett¹, Miriam Faust²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: yoedk@sas.upenn.edu.
² Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel; The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel.

PMID: 30803872
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.01.007

Abstract

The role of semantic memory in creativity is theoretically assumed, but far from understood. In recent years, computational network science tools have been applied to investigate this role. These studies shed unique quantitative insights on the role of semantic memory structure in creativity, via measures of connectivity, distance, and structure.

Keywords: creativity; network science; semantic networks.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cognition / physiology*
Cognitive Science / methods*
Creativity*
Humans
Memory / physiology*
Semantics*