The Creative Processes

The creative cognitive processes, janusian, homospatial, and sep-con articulation, were discovered through long-term empirical investigations consisting of extensive semi-structured research interview procedures with consensually recognized highly creative achievers in the arts and sciences. Subjects have been in literature: Nobel laureates, Pulitzer and other notable literary prizewinners; in science—Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, and medicine or physiology. Interview procedures were carried out over the course of the subjects’ both long and short-term creative projects and consisted of detailed objective examination of psychological processes in ongoing work and, where appropriate, past creative breakthroughs. Experimental assessments were also done with these and other creative subjects and noncreative controls. Comparison control research interviews, carried out in the same semi-structured manner as with the creative subjects, were performed with less creative matching cohorts. Documented accounts and other creative productions of outstanding art as well as science creators of the past were also systematically analyzed. The large body of evidence collected indicates that the three conscious and intentional processes, janusian, homospatial, and sep-conic articulation, are used for creative work and thought in art, literature, and other modern productive fields as well as general creative problem solving and everyday creative activities.