Understanding Creativity – A Computational Research from the Human Visual Perception’s Perspective

Human perception is a critical part of creativity. This research is based on an observation that a creative solution often connects two remotely related concepts. Therefore, I will focus on the mechanism of human visual perception, particularly the mechanism to connect two objects, in this project. The objective is to be achieved by using the curve reconstruction problem as an experimental platform, to quantify the visual information processing mechanism, with correlated cognitive activities (eye movements and brain activities). As a result, it is expected that a general framework for visual perception could be derived theoretically and mathematically, to reveal the cognitive mechanism underlying a creative process. A correlation is expected between the derived framework and cognitive responses within a creative process.

Faculty Supervisor:

Yong Zeng

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Partner:

Zhengzhou University

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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