scholarly journals Cognitive Models for Gastronomic Creation and Innovation

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-173
Author(s):  
David Casacuberta
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Innovation Processes

Based on the reflections of super-chef Ferran Adrià and his team at el Bulli restaurant, thispaper explores how certain creative mechanisms, techniques and procedures surroundingavant-garde gastronomy can be analysed from an enactivist model of cognition in order to:(1) understand creativity in the kitchen; (2) characterise culinary innovation processes; (3)establish whether some of these processes are general enough to be re-used in other fieldsand so broaden our theoretical understanding of the processes and mechanisms involvedin creation and innovation. We present those features that are specific to gastronomy as acreative process to distinguish them from others that are generic enough to form part of alarger family of creative processes. The paper seeks to present new perspectives on bothsubject-specific and generic creation processes in haute cuisine.

The Psychology of Creative Processes in Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Fillenz Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Ecological Theory ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
4E Cognition ◽  
Tuning Systems

In contrast to cerebral or mentalistic psychological accounts of creative processes, this chapter argues for an approach based within the frameworks of ecological theory and 4E cognition—the idea that psychological functioning is embodied, extended, embedded, and enacted. The chapter considers “everyday” and exceptional notions of the creative process and reviews cognitive models of musical creativity as a form of decision-making, as well as the tension between individualistic and social perspectives. As an alternative, it offers an account that recognizes the reciprocal relationship between materials (instruments, notations, tuning systems, recording/playback systems) and human minds and bodies conceived individually and collectively, drawing attention to four important features of musical creating: (1) the different scales at which it takes place, (2) its temporality, (3) its distributed and collaborative character, and (4) its intimate entanglement with environmental affordances.

IMPROVING THE IDEA SCREENING PROCESS WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS USING PREDICTION MARKETS: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit Kamp ◽  
Peter A Koen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Prediction Markets ◽  
Screening Process ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Collective Wisdom ◽  
Corporate Innovation ◽  
Innovation Processes

 Prediction markets have been identified as a valuable mechanism to evaluate and select ideas in the corporate innovation processes, because these markets leverage the collective wisdom of the entire organization. However, initial studies report low prediction accuracies and their usefulness is being challenged. A better theoretical understanding of idea markets is needed. Based on economic theory, experimental economics, and existing prediction market research, we present such a theory for the accuracy of idea markets. The theory is used to explain why current markets may have low prediction accuracy, and also why idea markets have great potential for improving idea screening.

scholarly journals Improvising and Navigating Mobilities: Tacking in Everyday Life

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 165-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vered Amit ◽  
Caroline Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Spatial Terms

This article aims to deepen and extend theoretical understanding of mobility by exploring some of the mechanisms by which it operates. It introduces the concept and practices of ‘tacking’ as a frame for examining the creative processes of navigation and improvisation through which people approach and reflect on the irregularities and uncertainties of their everyday rounds, enacted or otherwise narrated as spatial biography – lives conceived in mobile-spatial terms. ‘Tacking’ also travels beyond this frame of reference, i.e. it is ‘good to think with’ across different substantive contexts of social interaction. Tacking suggests ongoing adjustment and modification that respond to shifting circumstances and may create new facts on the ground, which elicit further adjustments.

ON AMBIGUITY TOLERANCE (AT) AND ROLES IN NPD TEAMS: TOWARDS A NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF AT

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. 1550046
Author(s):  
ERIC CHRISTIAN BRUN
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Ambiguity Tolerance ◽  
Personality Variable ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Innovation Processes

Many authors agree that ambiguity must be tolerated in innovation processes. There is however little research relating the concept of ambiguity tolerance (AT) to participants in new product development (NPD) projects. This paper adds to previous research where AT has been studied among entrepreneurs and managers. It shows that NPD team members in a variety of innovation-related roles can exhibit both tolerance and intolerance for ambiguity. To explain the seeming contradiction, this paper suggests distinguishing between dispositional AT as a personality variable and enacted AT as a behavioural variable. This research contributes towards a wider theoretical understanding of AT among NPD project participants, and proposes a new agenda for further research on AT in innovation. This research agenda will have managerial implications as it can improve an organisation's ability to succeed in NPD by selecting project managers and team members with appropriate capabilities to manage ambiguity.

scholarly journals From vectors to symbols to cognition: The symbolic and sub-symbolic aspects of vector-symbolic cognitive models

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A Kelly ◽  
Robert West
Keyword(s):  
Linear Algebra ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Theoretical Unification

To achieve a full, theoretical understanding of a cognitive process, explanations of the process need to be provided at both symbolic (i.e., representational) and sub-symbolic levels of description. We argue that cognitive models implemented in vector-symbolic architectures (VSAs) intrinsically operate at both of levels and thus provide a needed bridge. We characterize the sub-symbolic level of VSAs in terms of a small set of linear algebra operations. We characterize the symbolic level of VSAs in terms of cognitive processes, in particular how information is represented, stored, and retrieved, and classify vector-symbolic cognitive models in the literature according to their implementation of these processes. On the basis of our analysis, we speculate on avenues for future research, and suggest means for theoretical unification of existent models.

Dissociated Σ=27 boundaries in silicon

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 624-625
Author(s):  
A. Garg ◽  
W.A.T. Clark ◽  
J.P. Hirth
Keyword(s):  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Local Minimum ◽  
Boundary Energy ◽  
Coincidence Site Lattice ◽  
Boundary Plane ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Site Lattice ◽  
Kikuchi Pattern ◽  
Analysis Techniques

In the last twenty years, a significant amount of work has been done in the theoretical understanding of grain boundaries. The various proposed grain boundary models suggest the existence of coincidence site lattice (CSL) boundaries at specific misorientations where a periodic structure representing a local minimum of energy exists between the two crystals. In general, the boundary energy depends not only upon the density of CSL sites but also upon the boundary plane, so that different facets of the same boundary have different energy. Here we describe TEM observations of the dissociation of a Σ=27 boundary in silicon in order to reduce its surface energy and attain a low energy configuration.The boundary was identified as near CSL Σ=27 {255} having a misorientation of (38.7±0.2)°/[011] by standard Kikuchi pattern, electron diffraction and trace analysis techniques. Although the boundary appeared planar, in the TEM it was found to be dissociated in some regions into a Σ=3 {111} and a Σ=9 {122} boundary, as shown in Fig. 1.

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