title: Creative thought as blind-variation and selective-retention: combinatorial models of exceptional creativity.
abstract: Both positive and negative comments are discussed with the aim of stimulating future theoretical and empirical research on BVSR models of creativity, including combinatorial models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. dksimonton@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Dean Keith
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Simonton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology*