CREATIVITY IN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS (original) (raw)

What is creativity ? Many ideas have been developed about this rather common word, the appearance of which on the scene of knowledge is late, at least later than other words and concepts such as imagination or fantasy, for example. The word « creativity » was introduced in the 1940s by socio-psychologists ; it was used later on in the linguistic field, and is now currently a domain of analysis for neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. Creativity in a current sense may be applied to many domains : daily life, engineering, financial market… But the two domains which traditionally allow creativity at the purest degree are scientific and artistic productions.