Liane Gabora

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Liane Gabora is affiliated with the following schools: University of British Columbia, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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PhD Psychology University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Liane Gabora is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan. She is known for her theory of the "Origin of the modern mind through conceptual closure," which built on her earlier work on "Autocatalytic closure in a cognitive system: A tentative scenario for the origin of culture."

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Cultural learning. Author's reply (1993) (745)
The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory (2014) (259)
A theory of concepts and their combinations I (2004) (242)
Revenge of the “Neurds”: Characterizing Creative Thought in Terms of the Structure and Dynamics of Memory (2010) (225)
Concepts and Their Dynamics: A Quantum-Theoretic Modeling of Human Thought (2012) (222)
Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism (2002) (192)
Cognitive mechanisms underlying the creative process (2002) (168)
Toward an Ecological Theory of Concepts (2008) (138)
The Violation of Bell Inequalities in the Macroworld (2000) (131)
Incorporating characteristics of human creativity into an evolutionary art algorithm (2007) (120)
Creative Thought as a non Darwinian Evolutionary Process (2005) (114)
The Origin and Evolution of Culture and Creativity (1997) (113)
Quantum structure and human thought. (2013) (87)
Meme and Variations: A Computational Model of Cultural Evolution (1995) (83)
Ideas are not replicators but minds are (2004) (83)
Introduction to the special issue on quantum cognition (2009) (73)
A model of the emergence and evolution of integrated worldviews (2009) (72)
A Day in the Life of a Meme. (1996) (72)
Self-other organization: why early life did not evolve through natural selection. (2005) (70)
WICS: A Model for College and University Admissions (2012) (66)
The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition (2008) (65)
Contextual Focus: A Cognitive Explanation for the Cultural Revolution of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic (2013) (59)
Quantum morphogenesis: a variation on Thom's catastrophe theory. (2002) (59)
AUTOCATALYTIC CLOSURE IN A COGNITIVE SYSTEM: A TENTATIVE SCENARIO FOR THE ORIGIN OF CULTURE (1998) (58)
An evolutionary framework for cultural change: selectionism versus communal exchange. (2012) (57)
A case for applying an abstracted quantum formalism to cognition (2004) (57)
Honing Theory: A Complex Systems Framework for Creativity. (2016) (49)
The beer can theory of creativity (2001) (46)
How Insight Emerges in a Distributed, Content-addressable Memory (2011) (46)
Weaving, Bending, Patching, Mending the Fabric of Reality: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Worldview Inconsistency (2013) (45)
Evolution as context-driven actualisation of potential: toward an interdisciplinary theory of change of state (2005) (44)
Autocatalytic networks in cognition and the origin of culture. (2017) (44)
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity: Evolutionary Approaches to Creativity (2011) (42)
Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings (2013) (42)
Experimental Evidence for Quantum Structure in Cognition (2008) (42)
Meme and Variations: A Computer Model of Cultural Evolution (2013) (40)
The Neural Basis and Evolution of Divergent and Convergent Thought (2016) (40)
An Analysis of the Blind Variation and Selective Retention Theory of Creativity (2011) (39)
Creative Interference and States of Potentiality in Analogy Problem Solving (2013) (39)
Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Origin and Evolution of Culture (2001) (38)
The recognizability of individual creative styles within and across domains. (2012) (38)
Five Clarifications about Cultural Evolution (2013) (38)
The fate of evolutionary archaeology: survival or extinction? (2006) (34)
The Guppy Effect as Interference (2012) (33)
Amplifying Phenomenal Information: Toward a Fundamental Theory of Consciousness (1999) (31)
Generalizing Prototype Theory: A Formal Quantum Framework (2016) (30)
Two Cognitive Transitions Underlying the Capacity for Cultural Evolution (2018) (28)
Creativity: linchpin in the quest for a viable theory of cultural evolution (2018) (27)
COMMENTARIES: Why the Creative Process Is Not Darwinian: Comment on "The Creative Process in Picasso's Guernica Sketches: Monotonic Improvements versus Nonmonotonic Variants" (2007) (26)
Conceptual Closure: How Memories are Woven into an Interconnected Worldview (2000) (26)
Why the Disjunction in Quantum Logic is Not Classical (2000) (25)
Modeling Cultural Dynamics (2008) (25)
The Social Benefits of Balancing Creativity and Imitation: Evidence from an Agent-based Model (2017) (24)
A quantum model of exaptation: incorporating potentiality into evolutionary theory. (2013) (24)
Concept Combination and the Origins of Complex Cognition (2013) (22)
Contextualizing Concepts (2002) (22)
Quantum Structure in Cognition: Fundamentals and Applications (2011) (22)
Toward a Quantum Theory of Humor (2017) (22)
Why the creative process is not Darwinian (2013) (22)
Book Reviews (2007) (22)
How Creative Should Creators Be To Optimize the Evolution of Ideas? A Computational Model (2009) (22)
A Non-Phylogenetic Conceptual Network Architecture for Organizing Classes of Material Artifacts into Cultural Lineages (2013) (20)
Intrinsic contextuality as the crux of consciousness (2013) (20)
Identity, Kinship, and the Evolution of Cooperation (2018) (20)
Evolution as Context-driven Actualization of Potential 1 (2005) (19)
Introduction to the Special Issue on College and University Admissions (2012) (19)
How to train future engineers to be more creative? An educative experience (2018) (18)
Broadening the Spectrum of Undergraduate Admissions (2010) (18)
A Computational Model of Two Cognitive Transitions Underlying Cultural Evolution (2013) (17)
Deep Convolutional Networks as Models of Generalization and Blending within Visual Creativity (2016) (17)
How Did Humans Become So Creative? A Computational Approach (2013) (17)
An Agent-based Simulation of the Effectiveness of Creative Leadership (2010) (17)
Informing Artificial Intelligence Generative Techniques using Cognitive Theories of Human Creativity (2018) (17)
A cross-disciplinary framework for the description of contextually mediated change (2007) (17)
Synopsis of the workshop on humor and cognition (2013) (16)
Creative Thought as a nonDarwinian Evolutionary Process (2004) (16)
Evidence that Threatening Situations Enhance Creativity (2013) (15)
The Cross-Domain Re-interpretation of Artistic Ideas (2013) (15)
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore (1999) (15)
Toward an evolutionary-predictive foundation for creativity (2016) (15)
The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Facilitates Evolutionary Models of Culture Change (2018) (14)
Society Functions Best with an Intermediate Level of Creativity (2013) (14)
Broadening the Spectrum of Undergraduate Admissions: The Kaleidoscope Project. (2010) (14)
The Ubiquity of Cross-Domain Thinking in the Early Phase of the Creative Process (2019) (14)
Modeling a Cognitive Transition at the Origin of Cultural Evolution Using Autocatalytic Networks (2020) (14)
On the Foundations of the Theory of Evolution (2011) (14)
A Tentative Role for FOXP2 in the Evolution of Dual Processing Modes and Generative Abilities (2014) (12)
EVOC: A Computer Model of the Evolution of Culture (2013) (12)
Dynamical Disequilibrium, Transformation, and the Evolution and Development of Sustainable Worldviews (2013) (11)
A Study and Preliminary Model of Cross-Domain Influences on Creativity (2015) (11)
Toward a Formal Model of the Shifting Relationship between Concepts and Contexts in Associative Thought (2011) (11)
Reframing Convergent and Divergent Thought for the 21st Century (2018) (10)
A quantum information retrieval approach to memory (2012) (10)
A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks (2020) (10)
A Conceptual Network-Based Approach to Inferring the Cultural Evolutionary History of the Baltic Psaltery (2013) (10)
Why the Logical Disjunction in Quantum Logic is Not Classical (2000) (9)
Quantum Structures in Cognitive and Social Science (2016) (9)
An evolutionary process without variation and selection (2021) (9)
Why blind-variation and selective-retention is an inappropriate explanatory framework for creativity: comment on "Creative thought as blind-variation and selective-retention: combinatorial models of exceptional creativity" by Prof. Simonton. (2010) (9)
The Evolution of Intelligence. (2013) (9)
Computational Evidence that Self-regulation of Creativity is Good for Society (2014) (9)
Editorial: Quantum Structures in Cognitive and Social Science (2016) (8)
Distilling the Essence of an Evolutionary Process and Implications for a Formal Description of Culture (2013) (7)
Dark Side of Creativity - Dangling from a Tassel on the Fabric of Socially Constructed Reality: Reflections on the Creative Writing Process (2013) (7)
Soliton Kinetic Equations with Non‐Kolmogorovian Structure: A New Tool for Biological Modeling? (2006) (6)
Creative Ideas for Actualizing Student Potential (2013) (6)
Evidence that Cross-Domain Re-interpretations of Creative Ideas are Recognizable (2013) (6)
The Recognizability of Authenticity (2013) (6)
An agent-based model of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the origins of creative cultural evolution (2011) (5)
A Compelling Overview of Art Therapy Techniques and Outcomes (2007) (5)
Grounded in perceptions yet transformed into amodal symbols (1999) (5)
A new course on creativity in an engineering program: Foundations and issues (2014) (5)
Exploring the Psychological basis for Transitions in the Archaeological Record (2018) (5)
An Autocatalytic Network Model of Conceptual Change (2021) (5)
Recognizability of Individual Creative Style Within and Across Domains: Preliminary Studies (2010) (4)
Relationship between Creativity, Imitation, and Cultural Diversity (2014) (4)
The artist loft effect in the clustering 'creative types': a computer simulation (2009) (4)
A Possible Role for Entropy in Creative Cognition (2016) (4)
The form of a 'half-baked' creative idea: Empirical explorations into the structure of ill-defined mental representations. (2019) (4)
From Deep Learning to Deep Reflection: Toward an Appreciation of the Integrated Nature of Cognition and a Viable Theoretical Framework for Cultural Evolution (2019) (4)
The Creative Process of Cultural Evolution (2017) (4)
Physical Light as a Metaphor for Inner Light (2014) (3)
A Model of the Transition to Behavioral and Cognitive Modernity using Reflexively Autocatalytic Networks (2020) (3)
The Social Impact of Self-Regulated Creativity on the Evolution of Simple versus Complex Creative Ideas (2014) (3)
How Concepts Combine: A Quantum Theoretic Modeling of Human Thought (2012) (3)
Applying Complexity Theory to a Dynamical Process Model of the Development of Pathological Belief Systems (2013) (3)
From Uncertainty to Insight: An Autocatalytic Framework (2020) (3)
Cultural Evolution Entails (Creativity Entails (Concept Combination Entails Quantum Structure)) (2013) (3)
Cross-Domain Influences on Creative Processes and Products (2018) (3)
A Music-generating System Inspired by the Science of Complex Adaptive Systems (2016) (3)
Cognitive States of Potentiality in Art-making (2014) (3)
The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Paves the way for a Theory of Cultural Evolution (2018) (2)
Mental Wormholes and the Inner Workings of Creative Thought (2015) (2)
Modeling Discontinuous Cultural Evolution: The Impact of Cross-Domain Transfer (2022) (2)
A Dynamic Autocatalytic Network Model of Therapeutic Change (2022) (2)
WITHDRAWN: An evolutionary framework for culture and creativity: Selectionism versus communal exchange. (2012) (2)
A Model of the Mechanisms Underlying Exploratory Behaviour (1991) (2)
Educational Implications of the ‘Self-Made Worldview’ Concept (2018) (2)
A Music-generating System Based on Network Theory (2016) (2)
How Creative Ideas Take Shape (2015) (2)
Editorial: Formal and Informal Representations of Science (1999) (2)
LIVEIA: A Light-Based Immersive Visualization Environment for Imaginative Actualization (2014) (2)
The 'Power of Then': The Uniquely Human Capacity to Imagine Beyond the Present (2015) (2)
A Model for the Emergence and Evolution of the Integrated Worldview ∗ (2009) (2)
Creativity and the Self-Made Worldview (2019) (2)
The interwoven conceptual matrix of the cultural replicator (2000) (2)
Probing the Mind Behind the (Literal and Figurative) Lightbulb (2014) (2)
The emergence and evolution of integrated worldviews (2009) (2)
The Role of Engagement, Honing, and Mindfulness in Creativity (2018) (2)
How a Generation Was Misled About Natural Selection (2015) (1)
The birth of an idea (1994) (1)
GAS doesn't “turn the engine” when states are sequential or context-dependent (2004) (1)
CREATIVITY TRAINING FOR FUTURE ENGINEERS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AN EDUCATIVE EXPERIENCE (2016) (1)
Cultural learning as the transmission mechanism in an evolutionary process (1993) (1)
Reply to the commentaries on "An evolutionary framework for cultural change: selectionism versus communal exchange". (2013) (1)
Quantum morphogenesis: A variation on a theme by R. Thom (2002) (1)
Can Sol's Explanation for the Evolution of Animal Innovation Account for Human Innovation? (2014) (1)
Epigenetic and cultural evolution are non-Darwinian (2007) (1)
A Communal Exchange-based Framework for Cultural Evolution (2015) (1)
Modeling the Role of Context Dependency in the Recognition and Manifestation of Entrepreneurial Opportunity (2011) (1)
The objectivity of moral norms is a top-down cultural construct (2018) (1)
Nuancing the neuron. (2011) (0)
A Smile Goes a Long Way: Exploring the Effect of Culture, Weather, and Connectedness on Smile Diffusion with an Agent-based Modell (2019) (0)
Complexity from Theory to Practise: An Interview with Bruce Sawhill (1999) (0)
CAN AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW CULTURE EVOLVES AWAKEN A SENSE OF MEANING IN LIFE (2011) (0)
creativity (2020) (0)
A Layperson Introduction to the Quantum Approach to Humor (2017) (0)
Research on Creativity (2020) (0)
The Creative Process in Musical Composition: An Introspective Account (2016) (0)
Full Reference: Gabora, L. (2013). An evolutionary framework for culture: Selectionism versus communal exchange. Physics of Life Reviews, 10(2), 117-145. An Evolutionary Framework for Cultural Change: Selectionism versus Communal Exchange Running head: Evolutionary Framework Culture (2013) (0)
Toward an evolutionary-predictive foundation for creativity (2015) (0)
Cultural transitions occur when mind parasites learn new tricks (1993) (0)
Evolution Without Variation and Selection (2020) (0)
Publisher's Note: Quantum morphogenesis: A variation on Thom's catastrophe theory [ Phys. Rev. E 67, 051926 (2003)] (2004) (0)
A measured educational experience developing creativity with graduate and undergraduate engineering students (2018) (0)
Why Cognitive Science is Needed for a Viable Theoretical Framework for Cultural Evolution (2018) (0)
Symposium: Creative Cognition (2014) (0)
Research evaluation 2003/2004, Philosophy & Letters (2004) (0)
Modeling the Role of Context Dependency in the Identification and Manifestation of Entrepreneurial Opportunity (2010) (0)
Psychology of Creativity (2020) (0)
Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine (1999) (0)
Book Review of 'Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies' Edited by Ethan E. Cochrane and Andrew Gardner (2014) (0)
Evidence for the Cross-Domain Reinterpretation of Creative Ideas (2013) (0)
The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition Action editor : (2015) (0)
The Making of a Creative Worldview. (2018) (0)
How a Quantum Approach to Memory Incorporates Contextuality and Potentiality (2012) (0)
Studies of the Effects on Creativity of Having Very Different Parents (2010) (0)
Evolution of the Science Fiction Writer's Capacity to Imagine the Future (2018) (0)
Cultivating creative thinking for an innovative world. (2016) (0)
Social Innovation and the Evolution of Creative, Sustainable Worldviews (2018) (0)
Exaptative Thinking as What Makes Us Human (2020) (0)
Editors' Preface: Interdisciplinary Studies of Quantum Structures (2000) (0)
Symposium: Creative Cognition - eScholarship (2014) (0)
CREATIVITY TRAINING FOR FUTURE ENGINEERS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF AN EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION (2015) (0)
The Silver Lining Around Fearful Living (2015) (0)
Clinical and Educational Applications of LIVEIA: An Immersive Visualization Environment (2016) (0)
Mind: An Archaeological Perspective (2013) (0)
Commentary / Pothos & Busemeyer : Can quantum probability provide a new direction for cognitive modeling ? (2013) (0)
The birth of a creative idea. Commentary on ‘The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms’ by Margaret Boden. (1994) (0)
Contextualizing Concepts 1 , 2 (2002) (0)
FOXP2 as the Genetic Basis for the Capacity to Shift Between Analytic and Associative Modes of Thought (2013) (0)
How Does Culture Evolve? (2021) (0)
The Cultural Evolution of Creative Ideas and Social Innovations (2021) (0)
Why a Population Genetics Framework is Inappropriate for Cultural Evolution (2018) (0)
If Experts Converge on the Same Answer are they Less Creative than Beginners? Redefining Creativity in Terms of Adaptive Landscapes (2011) (0)
Perspectives on Artistic Creativity: A Review of ‘The Artful Mind’ (Mark Turner, Ed.) (2007) (0)
Are Effective Leaders Creative? (2015) (0)
An Agent-based Simulation of the Effectiveness of Creative Leadership - eScholarship (2010) (0)
Beyond two modes of thought: A quantum model of how three cognitive variables yield conceptual change (2022) (0)
Microtubules, Anesthetics, and Quantum Consciousness:An Interview with Stuart Hameroff (1999) (0)
Running head : SOCIAL BENEFITS BALANCING CREATIVITY IMITATION 1 The Social Benefits of Balancing Creativity and Imitation : Evidence from an Agent-based Model (2017) (0)
Are People with Very Different Parents More Creative? Some Preliminary Studies (2009) (0)
Nuancing the Neuron: A Review of 'The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives' by Suzanne Nalbantian, Paul M. Matthews, and James L. McClelland (Eds.) (2014) (0)
A cognitive transition underlying both technological and social aspects of cumulative culture (2020) (0)
A Cultural Evolution Framework for Human Creativity (2019) (0)
:Epigenetic Principles of Evolution: With Emphasis on Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change in Metazoans (2009) (0)
The allure of the unknown in a tamed, mapped, and homogenized world (2022) (0)
Do Future Engineers Have a Creative Thread? An Analysis of Two Cognitive Exercises and a Test (2018) (0)
Cultural Evolution as Distributed Computation (2013) (0)
Can Other People Make You Less Creative? (2015) (0)
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Coordinating Biological Needs with Continuously-updated Assessments of the Environment (1993) (0)

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