My collaborators and I have been studying “creativity” in non-human animals, such as dolphins, killer whales, and dogs, using a training technique that promotes variable non-verbal behaviors. (Watch this short video to learn about our marine mammal research.) Using this training technique, dubbed “innovate” or “create”, trainers have taught a variety of animals to produce […]
Creativity
In this episode of All Things Cognition, I interviewed Zoe Hughes (pictured below) about her meta-analysis published in the Psychonomic Society journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review on the effects of mindfulness on creativity with co-authors, Linden Ball, Jeannie Judge, and Cassandra Richardson. We talked about different types of creativity and which was more impacted by […]
When you think of creativity what do you imagine? There are a lot of examples to choose from, like cooking up a new take on a traditional dish, working with a team to reason through a difficult business problem, writing short stories, trouble-shooting an engineering problem that had everyone else stumped, or coming up with […]