Computers and Creativity

This text studies human creativity from a computational modelling perspective. The work examines theories and models of the creative process in humans, both input creativity - the analytic side of interpreting input information - and output creativity - the artistic, synthetic process of generating something novel and innovative. After critically examining earlier theories and computational models, the authors develop their own model, an emergent memory theory. This theory is then implemented as a computational model and a detailed empirical study is reported and analyzed.