Yoed N Kenett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1848565 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yoed N Kenett |
| PRENOMES | Yoed N |
| SOBRENOME | Kenett |
| ASSINATURA | KENETT Y N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3872-7689 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Semantic Memory Structure and Self-Evaluation of Creativity
Creativity involves generating ideas that are both original and useful, relying on intertwined cognitive and metacognitive processes. We examined how individual differences in semantic memory structure and ideation fluency predict creative performance and self-evaluations across two studies. In Study 1, participants completed a creative problem-solving (CPS) task, with semantic memory networks estimated from a relatedness judgment task. Creative …
How Knowledge Structure and Form Shape Scientific Divergent Thinking
Scientific creativity depends not only on what learners know but also on how knowledge is organized, yet evidence in scientific domains remains limited. Across two experiments, we examined whether knowledge structures predict scientific divergent thinking and whether knowledge form shapes creativity through its effects on these structures. Undergraduate students completed the Scientific Divergent Application Task (SDAT), which requires generating…
Automated Scoring of Question Complexity with Transformer Language Models
Introduces two automated transformer models for assessing cognitive question complexity: high-performing LLaMA 2 and efficient, robust RoBERTa. • These fine-tuned transformer language models greatly outperform surface-based and semantic-distance baselines. • Both models predict open-ended question complexity and align strongly with human ratings. • Introduces PrediQT , a free web app for automated question-complexity scoring. • Bridges creativity…
Automated assessment of creativity in multilingual narratives
Researchers and educators interested in creative writing need a reliable and efficient tool to score the creativity of narratives, such as short stories. Typically, human raters manually assess narrative creativity, but such subjective scoring is limited by labor costs and rater disagreement. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success on creativity tasks, yet they have not been applied to scoring narratives, including multilingual…
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”
Dr Weisberg has presented a commentary on our paper, The Process Definition of Creativity, in which he formulates criticisms of several elements of the process definition that we propose. Here, we
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood
Successful problem-solving and enhanced creative ability may improve physical health, cognitive well-being, and overall independence of older adults. In general, older adults who are more creative, may be better able to cope with cognitive decline and navigate everyday tasks. While previous research on creative performance in older adulthood showed age-related stability, open questions remain regarding the specific underlying cognitive basis for …
Creative Cognition
Creative cognition research has flourished in recent decades, revealing how extraordinary creative outcomes emerge from ordinary cognitive processes. However, the field faces fragmentation that hinders consensus and integration. This research agenda, developed through a collaborative workshop of 50 European researchers at the Lorentz Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, identifies four critical challenges for advancing creative cognition research. …
Semantic memory network resilience in aging
Creativity, the fountain of youth
Creativity relies on the ability to make new associations between concepts stored in our semantic memory in order to create new and effective ideas in a specific context. Recent studies showed that creative people are characterized by more flexible semantic memory structures, which facilitate novel associations between concepts. On the other hand, older adults exhibit more rigid semantic memory structures and ability to access these structures, r…
Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists
The associative theory posits that creativity relates to people's ability to connect remote associations to form new ideas, based on the structure of their semantic memory.This theory has spurred several recent studies connecting semantic memory structure and associative thinking to creativity, capitalizing on advances in computational methods.To date, however, this research has almost exclusively focused on assessing creativity in the general po…
The role of asking more complex questions in creative thinking
Laughing across the bridge
The Role of Knowledge in Creative Thinking
In this invited paper, I briefly review my past, current, and future lines of research.The associative theory of creativity argues that higher creative individuals have a richer semantic memory structure that facilitates broader associative search processes, that leads to the combination of remote concepts into novel and appropriate ideas.Based on this theory, in my research I investigate the role of knowledge -or semantic memory -in high-level c…
The Effect of Aging on Question-Asking, Divergent Thinking, and Problem-Solving Abilities
Question asking, an important but understudied form of information-seeking behavior, is related to problem-solving and creative abilities. Studies show that problem-solving and creative abilities decrease when we age. Yet not much is known about how question-asking ability changes. In the current study, we investigated aging and question asking, creativity, and problem-solving in three age groups: younger (ages 20–40), middle-aged (ages 40–60), a…
The Causal Role of the Left Angular Gyrus in Creativity-Driven Restructuring
Creative problem-solving relies on the flexible reorganization of prior knowledge to reshape complex memory structures, yet the behavioral and neural processes supporting this transformation remain poorly understood. The angular gyrus (AG) may play a key role in creativity-driven restructuring by integrating semantic information. To investigate this, participants underwent anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left AG or …
Semantic memory and creative evaluation
Our findings reveal how different aspects of semantic memory structure contribute to creative thinking and metacognitive judgments
The Art of Creative Inquiry—From Question Asking to Prompt Engineering
As artificial intelligence and natural language processing methods rapidly develop, communication plays a pivotal role in every‐day interactions. In this theoretical paper, we explore the overlap and commonalities between question‐asking and prompt engineering. While seemingly distinct, these processes share a common foundation in essential skills like creativity, critical thinking, and cognitive flexibility. We contend that prompt engineering, t…
Cognitive modelling of concepts in the mental lexicon with multilayer networks
The mental lexicon is a complex cognitive system representing information about the words/concepts that one knows. Over decades psychological experiments have shown that conceptual associations across multiple, interactive cognitive levels can greatly influence word acquisition, storage, and processing. How can semantic, phonological, syntactic, and other types of conceptual associations be mapped within a coherent mathematical framework to study…
The Process Definition of Creativity
The “standard” definition of creativity as novel and useful describes creative products, but creativity is constituted by processes. This misalignment contributes to the oft-noted challenges of operationalizing creativity. Here, we distinguish creativity as a process from creativity as an attribute (i.e. “creative-ness”). Operating from a priori premises of creativity theory, we develop a process definition of creativity. Specifically, creativity…
A meta-analysis of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on creative thinking
Conceptual structure of emotions
Theories of semantic organization have historically prioritized investigation of concrete concepts pertaining to inanimate objects and natural kinds. As a result, accounts of the conceptual representation of emotions have almost exclusively focused on their juxtaposition with concrete concepts. The present study aims to fill this gap by deriving a large set of normative feature data for emotion concepts and assessing similarities and differences …
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Associative thinking at the core of creativity
Multilingual semantic distance
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual scoring practices have benefited the field, but they also have limitations, including labor-intensiveness and subjectivity, which can adversely impact the reliability and validity of assessments. To address these challenges, researchers are increasingly employing autom…
Mapping the Creative Personality
Existing research has consistently supported a relationship between creative achievement and specific personality traits (e.g. openness to experience). However, such work has largely focused on univariate associations, potentially obscuring complex interactions among multiple personality factors, rendering an incomplete picture of the creative personality. We applied a psychometric network approach to characterize the multidimensional personality…
Forward flow”
When the human mind is free to roam, its subjective experience is characterized by a continuously evolving stream of thought. Although there is a technique that captures people's streams of free thought-free association-its utility for scientific research is undermined by two open questions: (a) How can streams of thought be quantified? (b) Do such streams predict psychological phenomena? We resolve the first issue-quantification-by presenting a …
The Hyper-Modular Associative Mind
Rigidity of thought is considered a main characteristic of persons with Asperger syndrome (AS). This rigidity may explain the poor comprehension of unusual semantic relations, frequently exhibited by persons with AS. Research indicates that such deficiency is related to altered mental lexicon organization, but has never been directly examined. The present study used computational network science tools to compare the mental lexicon structure of pe…
The Art of Creative Inquiry—From Question Asking to Prompt Engineering
As artificial intelligence and natural language processing methods rapidly develop, communication plays a pivotal role in every‐day interactions. In this theoretical paper, we explore the overlap and commonalities between question‐asking and prompt engineering. While seemingly distinct, these processes share a common foundation in essential skills like creativity, critical thinking, and cognitive flexibility. We contend that prompt engineering, t…
Predicting openness to experience via a multiplex cognitive network approach
Investigating the structure of semantic networks in low and high creative persons
According to Mednick's (1962) theory of individual differences in creativity, creative individuals appear to have a richer and more flexible associative network than less creative individuals. Thus, creative individuals are characterized by "flat" (broader associations) instead of "steep" (few, common associations) associational hierarchies. To study these differences, we implement a novel computational approach to the study of semantic networks,…
The Hyper-Modular Associative Mind
Rigidity of thought is considered a main characteristic of persons with Asperger syndrome (AS). This rigidity may explain the poor comprehension of unusual semantic relations, frequently exhibited by persons with AS. Research indicates that such deficiency is related to altered mental lexicon organization, but has never been directly examined. The present study used computational network science tools to compare the mental lexicon structure of pe…
Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity
Significance People’s capacity to generate creative ideas is central to technological and cultural progress. Despite advances in the neuroscience of creativity, the field lacks clarity on whether a specific neural architecture distinguishes the highly creative brain. Using methods in network neuroscience, we modeled individual creative thinking ability as a function of variation in whole-brain functional connectivity. We identified a brain networ…
Cognitive Network Science
Network science provides a set of quantitative methods to investigate complex systems, including human cognition. Although cognitive theories in different domains are strongly based on a network perspective, the application of network science methodologies to quantitatively study cognition has so far been limited in scope. This review demonstrates how network science approaches have been applied to the study of human cognition and how network sci…
A Semantic Network Cartography of the Creative Mind
Forward flow”
When the human mind is free to roam, its subjective experience is characterized by a continuously evolving stream of thought. Although there is a technique that captures people's streams of free thought-free association-its utility for scientific research is undermined by two open questions: (a) How can streams of thought be quantified? (b) Do such streams predict psychological phenomena? We resolve the first issue-quantification-by presenting a …
Abstract art paintings, global image properties, and verbal descriptions
A novel coding scheme for assessing responses in divergent thinking
In the present study we devised a novel coding scheme for responses generated in a divergent thinking task. Based on considerations from behavioural and neurocognitive research from an embodied perspective, our scheme aims to capture dimensions of simulations of action or the body. In an exploratory investigation, we applied our novel coding scheme to analyze responses from a previously published dataset of divergent thinking responses. We show t…
The relation between semantic memory structure, associative abilities, and verbal and figural creativity
Research has independently highlighted the roles of semantic memory and associative abilities in creative thinking. However, it remains unclear how these two capacities relate to each other, nor how they facilitate different creative thinking modalities, such as verbal and figural creativity. This study employed multiple cognitive tests and network science methodologies to shed light on the relationship between them. We constructed individual-bas…
Flexible Semantic Network Structure Supports the Production of Creative Metaphor
Metaphors are a common way to express creative language, yet the cognitive basis of figurative language production remains poorly understood. Previous studies found that higher creative individuals can better comprehend novel metaphors, potentially due to a more flexible semantic memory network structure conducive to remote conceptual combination. The present study extends this domain to creative metaphor production and examined whether the abili…
The effect of aging on facial attractiveness
How does aging affect facial attractiveness? We tested the hypothesis that people find older faces less attractive than younger faces, and furthermore, that these aging effects are modulated by the age and sex of the perceiver and by the specific kind of attractiveness judgment being made. Using empirical and computational network science methods, we confirmed that with increasing age, faces are perceived as less attractive. This effect was less …
The Neuroscience of Well-Being
Studying the two main components of well-being—hedonia and eudaimonia—can shed insight into its psychological and neural aspects. This chapter begins by highlighting how neuroscience research in two related domains—creativity and meditation—has been useful. Then, the authors review the extant neuroscientific research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Finally, they propose a testable, general framework on how the brain may realize both hedonic…
Associative thinking at the core of creativity
Multilingual semantic distance
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual scoring practices have benefited the field, but they also have limitations, including labor-intensiveness and subjectivity, which can adversely impact the reliability and validity of assessments. To address these challenges, researchers are increasingly employing autom…
Mapping the Creative Personality
Existing research has consistently supported a relationship between creative achievement and specific personality traits (e.g. openness to experience). However, such work has largely focused on univariate associations, potentially obscuring complex interactions among multiple personality factors, rendering an incomplete picture of the creative personality. We applied a psychometric network approach to characterize the multidimensional personality…
The Effects of Environmental Scene and Body Posture on Embodied Strategies in Creative Thinking
Accounts of embodied cognition suggest that environmental scene and motor information can be used in a type of neural simulation when generating creative uses for manipulable objects. A scarce amount of studies suggests that the state of the body and environment play a role in people’s ability to devise creative uses for objects. In this theoretically motivated study, we manipulated the environmental context and adopted a previously used body pos…
A Thirst for Knowledge
Curiosity, creativity, and aesthetics are typically studied separately. The extent to which they share psychological and neural mechanisms is not well understood, despite all being linked to broader personality characteristics like Openness to Experience and are driven by a desire for information and knowledge. Here, we review evidence and advance the hypothesis that creative and aesthetic experiences depend on curiosity as a driver of informatio…
Brain Connectivity-Based Prediction of Combining Remote Semantic Associates for Creative Thinking
Associative thinking plays a major role in creativity, as it involves the ability to link distant concepts. Yet, the neural mechanisms allowing to combine distant associates in creative thinking tasks remain poorly understood. We investigated the whole-brain functional connectivity patterns related to combining remote associations for creative thinking. Using a connectome predictive modeling approach, we examined whole-brain functional connectivi…
Representing melodic relationships using network science
Predicting openness to experience via a multiplex cognitive network approach
Cognitive modelling of concepts in the mental lexicon with multilayer networks
The mental lexicon is a complex cognitive system representing information about the words/concepts that one knows. Over decades psychological experiments have shown that conceptual associations across multiple, interactive cognitive levels can greatly influence word acquisition, storage, and processing. How can semantic, phonological, syntactic, and other types of conceptual associations be mapped within a coherent mathematical framework to study…
The Process Definition of Creativity
The “standard” definition of creativity as novel and useful describes creative products, but creativity is constituted by processes. This misalignment contributes to the oft-noted challenges of operationalizing creativity. Here, we distinguish creativity as a process from creativity as an attribute (i.e. “creative-ness”). Operating from a priori premises of creativity theory, we develop a process definition of creativity. Specifically, creativity…
A meta-analysis of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on creative thinking
Conceptual structure of emotions
Theories of semantic organization have historically prioritized investigation of concrete concepts pertaining to inanimate objects and natural kinds. As a result, accounts of the conceptual representation of emotions have almost exclusively focused on their juxtaposition with concrete concepts. The present study aims to fill this gap by deriving a large set of normative feature data for emotion concepts and assessing similarities and differences …
Protect our environment from information overload
Psychology (34 obras) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (30 obras) · Cognitive psychology (28 obras) · Creativity (26 obras) · Social Psychology (23 obras) · Computer Science (18 obras) · Cognition (17 obras) · Cognitive science (16 obras) · Neuroscience (11 obras) · Divergent thinking (10 obras)