Creativity and Multimodal Tropes
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Creativity and Intelligence
Creativity is the ability to generate something novel and useful. But is creativity related to intelligence? Are intelligent people more creative?
In my research I explore following questions:
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What is the underlying cognitive mechanism of creativity?
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Are creativity and intelligence related?
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How domain specific intelligence relates to domain specific creativity?
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How intelligent individuals allocate cognitive resources while doing creative tasks as compared to low intelligent individuals?
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How multimodal creativity is possible?
Research findings:
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Intelligence and creativity are related at least in terms of cognitive resource allocation.
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Individuals with different intelligence levels allocate cognitive resources differently in creative tasks.
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Individuals with high intelligence allocate more resources while doing creative tasks as compared to low intelligent individuals.
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Domain specific intelligence may not be related to domain specific creativity.
Research Methods:
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Behavioural experiments (Response time, Comprehension)
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Pupillometry studies (Change in pupil size and eye blink rate)
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Eye movement analysis
Pictorial depiction of creative tropes
Language has various tools for creative communication. They are called tropes such as irony, simile, personification, hyperbole, etc. In this ongoing research I am looking for pictorial counterparts of these tropes. The primary question is, can there be pictorial counterparts of all the linguistic tropes and if yes, then how are they different from their verbal counterparts.
Below I present pictorial counterparts of some of the tropes.
Hyperbole
Exaggerated terms for emphasis
Euphemism
It is used when some decorum term indirectly related to an object with social sensitive coonotations is used instead of the socially cruder standard term. For example "Fig leaves"
Oxymoron
It is the attribution of incompatible traits to an object. For example "sharp dullness of a professor".
Simile
It involves the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. Used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
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