Modelo geral da criatividade

Abstract

By means of a critical-analytical essay, this paper reviews the understanding of creativity, and proposes a model supported by cognitive sciences latest contributions. Starting from the parallel distribution processing logic, the General Model of Creativity organizes both vectors of fluency and divergence degree, offering an unified conceptual basis for creativity's studies, as well as some precise directions for methodological definitions in neurological research. The analysis of creativity's vectors, their limitations, and temporal repercussions, appropriates itself of many terms in order to underline that the state of creation consists on a specific equilibrium instead of divergent thinking.