Creativity as cognitive selection: The blind-variation and selective-retention model

Authors
Simonton, DK
Citation
Dk. Simonton, Creativity as cognitive selection: The blind-variation and selective-retention model, BEHAV BRAIN, 24(3), 2001, pp. 554
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology,"Neurosciences & Behavoir
Journal title
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
ISSN journal
0140525X → ACNP
Volume
24
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(200106)24:3<554:CACSTB>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Campbell (1960) proposed a "blind-variation and selective retention" model of creative cognition. Subsequent researchers have developed this BVSR mode l into a comprehensive theory of human creativity, one that recognizes that human creativity operates by more than one cognitive process. The question is then raised of how the BVSR model can be accommodated within the Hall e t al. selectionist system.