Pavia, September 14 - 17, 1998

Index Chairmen Program committee Scientific secretary Aims of the workshop Topics Program Workshop site Workshop modalities		ANALOGY PERCEPTION AND CREATIVITY MECHANISMS Bruno Vivicorsi CREPCO (Centre de Recherche en Psychologie Cognitive) UMR 6561 CNRS & Universite de Provence 29 avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1 France phone: (33) 04 42 95 37 18 fax: (33) 04 42 20 59 05 e-mail: vivicors@newsup.univ-mrs.fr URL: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~wcrepco/ Numerous works in cognitive psychology show that perception can be oriented by stimulus features and knowledge. Perception is then not a real tracing. Nevertheless, intelligence, or situation adaptation, takes root in perception, in particular when we can perceive analogies between situations. According to Hofstadter, creativity results from variations around what is perceived as the same in situations. Consequently, mechanisms involved in the creativity are seen as analogy perception processes: a high-level perception process (perceiving a situation in a certain way) and a perception-conceptualization loop (perception entails concepts activation that can orients perception, and so on). These processes permit to be leaded towards a specific resolution without determined solution. We claim that these mechanisms are generally used in activities that require mental fluidity and imply some consequences about concepts nature and cognitive architecture.
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