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Creativity and personality in classical, jazz and folk musicians.

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Creativity and personality of classical, jazz, and folk musicians was compared and Jazz musicians show higher divergent thinking ability and Folk musicians are more extraverted and publish more musical productions.
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2014-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 66 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Music & Musical improvisation.

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Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity.

TL;DR: Assessment of three specific executive abilities for creative thought provided direct support for the executive involvement in creative thought and shed further light on the functional relationship between intelligence and creativity.
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Is creativity without intelligence possible? A Necessary Condition Analysis

TL;DR: The Necessary Condition Analysis (Dul et al. as discussed by the authors ) is an empirical test of the hypothesis that intelligence is a necessary condition for creativity, which is based on the classic threshold hypothesis.
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The neuroscience of musical improvisation

TL;DR: This review synthesizes functional magnetic resonance imagining studies of musical improvisation, including vocal and instrumental improvisations, with samples of jazz pianists, classical musicians, freestyle rap artists, and non-musicians to reflect cooperation between large-scale brain networks associated with cognitive control and spontaneous thought.
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Assessment of real-life creativity: The Inventory of Creative Activities and Achievements (ICAA).

TL;DR: The Inventory of Creative Activities and Achievements (ICAA) as discussed by the authors is a broad-based assessment of individual differences in real-life creativity, which provides independent scales for the frequency of engagement in everyday creative activity and the level of creative achievement across 8 creative domains.
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Gray matter correlates of creative potential: A latent variable voxel-based morphometry study

TL;DR: The results indicate that the ability to produce original ideas is tied to default-mode as well as dopaminergic structures, which was apparent throughout the whole range of intellectual ability and thus not moderated by intelligence.
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The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance.

TL;DR: A theoretical framework is proposed that explains expert performance in terms of acquired characteristics resulting from extended deliberate practice and that limits the role of innate (inherited) characteristics to general levels of activity and emotionality.
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A Meta-Analysis of Personality in Scientific and Artistic Creativity

TL;DR: The results of the first meta-analytic review of the literature on personality and creative achievement are presented, to present a conceptual integration of underlying potential psychological mechanisms that personality and creativity have in common, and to show how the topic of creativity has been important to personality psychologists and can be to social psychologists.
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Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a Four C model of creativity that expands this dichotomy by adding the idea of "mini-c", creativity inherent in the learning process, and Pro-c, the developmental and effortful progression beyond little-c that represents professional-level expertise in any creative area.
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How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education

Lucy Green
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define what it is to be musically educated and what is it to learn to play popular music from popular musicians, skills, knowledge and self-conceptions of popular musicians.
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Assessing Creativity With Divergent Thinking Tasks: Exploring the Reliability and Validity of New Subjective Scoring Methods

TL;DR: In this article, a new approach to assessing divergent thinking and appraises its reliability and validity is presented, where participants complete a divergent-thinking task and then circle the two responses that they think are their most creative responses.
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