A "Small-World" Network Model of Cognitive Insight

By Melissa A. Schilling. 2005

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Why and how do creative thinking techniques work?: Trading off originality and appropriateness to make more creative advertising (2009, background): “This efficient retrieval process may lead to functional fixedness where an individual automatically recalls a representation and has difficulty in doing otherwise (Ford 1996; Marsh et al. 1996; Schilling 2005; Wiley 1998).”
The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks (2012, background): “In the context of an organizational network, as the network becomes more “small-worldly,” information can diffuse more quickly, fostering outcomes such as innovation or creativity (Schilling 2005, Schilling and Phelps 2007).”
A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry (2008, background): “By being entrenched in the prevailing conventions, they become increasingly reluctant to abandon existing ideas and knowledge to explore new ones (Schilling 2005) and are likely to experience a decline in intrinsic motivation due to adherence to a winning style (Faulkner and Anderson 1987).”
Prominent but Less Productive (2015, background): “…documents the benefits of bringing together distinct ideas across domains, an idea developed from research on recombinant innovation (Fleming, 2001; Schilling, 2005; Singh and Fleming, 2010): pooling non-redundant information from disparate sources is the foundation from which novel ideas spring…”
Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains* (2018, background): “…-human-genome-project-hgp/. specialists, who largely rely on the knowledge available within the domain, gradually exhaust any novel and impactful recombinations (Fleming, 2001; Schilling, 2005), a situation that Fleming (2002) called ‘‘combinatoric exhaustion.’’”
Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact (2013, background): “Combinations of existing material are centerpieces in theories of creativity, whether in the arts, the sciences, or commercial innovation (2-4, 6-10, 16).”
The Core and Cosmopolitans: A Relational View of Innovation in User Communities (2012, background): “Consistent with Schilling’s findings (2005), our interviewees noted that people embedded in the core experienced a homogenizing effect of beliefs and evaluation of activities, making them reluctant to contribute novelty to the field.”
The influence of relationship networks on academic performance in higher education: a comparative study between students of a creative and a non-creative discipline (2016, background): “…same information sources and in turn sharing redundant information and knowledge (Morrison and Rabellotti 2005), to be exposed to different sources of stress and conflict (Perry-Smith and Shalley 2003) and to some difficulties in abandoning existing ideas and exploring new ones (Schilling 2005).”
Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement. (2016, background): “With regard to creativity (other than the study of Kenett et al., 2014, described above), Schilling (2005) has presented a theory that suggests that insight problem solving is a result of a successful search throughout semantic memory, enabled by either finding “shortcuts” or by the creation of new…”
How semantic memory structure and intelligence contribute to creative thought: a network science approach (2017, background): “It argues that individual differences in semantic memory structure influence creative thought in a bottom-up manner (Gruszka & Neçka, 2002; Kenett, Anaki, & Faust, 2014; Mednick, 1962; Rossman & Fink, 2010; Schilling, 2005).”