What if picking up a paintbrush, dancing to music, or learning a new game could help your brain stay biologically younger? A new study in Nature Communications suggests exactly that. Creative ...

Researchers have discovered that ADHD’s hallmark mind wandering might actually boost creativity. People who deliberately let their thoughts drift scored higher on creative tests in two large studies.

Creativity is our birthright. It is one of the most compelling aspects of human nature. Our imagination enlivens us and enhances our connection with everything around us. Creativity supports flexible ...

A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: It appeared to help less naturally creative people write more original short stories — but ...

Although it can boost individuals’ creativity, it seems to homogenize and flatten our collective output. Generative AI models have made it simpler and quicker to produce everything from text passages ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. The science of creativity also provides a much-needed ...

When I was at the beginning of my Ph.D. studies, my advisor at Stanford, Professor Gordon Bower, invited each of his first-year graduate students to his house for dinner. After dinner, he asked each ...

Large language models are getting better at mimicking human creativity. That doesn’t mean they’re actually being creative, though. AI is getting better at passing tests designed to measure human ...

Do you think that creativity is an innate gift? Think again. Many people believe that creative thinking is difficult – that the ability to come up with ideas in novel and interesting ways graces only ...