Improvisation: Methods and models

Abstract

HOW DO PEOPLE IMPROVISE? How is improvisational skill learned andtaught? These questions are the subject of this chapter. They are difficult questions, for behind them are long-standing philosophical quandaries such as the origins of novelty and the nature of expertise, which trouble psychologists and artificial intelligence workers today almost as much as they did Plato and Socrates in the fourth and fifth centuries BC.