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WMCEREBELLUM (talk) 00:33, 28 May 2009 (UTC)WMCEREBELLUM 03:32, 27 August 2007 (UTC)Larry R. Vandervert, PhD developed the working memory/cerebellum explanation of creativity from recent imaging studies of working memory and the cognitive functions of the cerebellum. Dr. Vandervert first described this approach in two publications which appeared in 2003. More recently the working memory/cerebellar explanation has been bolstered by additional imaging evidence (Vandervert, Schimpf & Liu, 2007a). In addition to support from imaging studies, Vandervert’s work is supported by the substantial work on the cerebellum developed by Masao Ito (e.g., 2005). (See Ito’s [2007] commentary.) Ito won the Japan prize for this work on the cerebellum.

One of the significant contributions of the working memory/cerebellar explanation of creativity is its explanation of creativity in the deep theoretical physics of quantum theory (see Vandervert, Schimpf & Liu, 2007b, pp. 64-66). Vandervert’s approach to creativity and giftedness has been recently extended to an explanation of the accelerated working memory development of child prodigies (Vandervert, 2007; Vandervert, 2009a, 2009b). Since working memory and the cerebellum are basic to the human thought process and its ongoing elaboration, the approach offers important new explanations for the origin of language, and language acquisition. Essentially, Vandervert has argued that language was selected from existing visual-spatial working memory and vocalizations as they were decomposed and re-composed (fractionated) by the cerebellum and then blended in the cerebral cortex (Vandervert, in press-a, in press-b).

References

Ito, M. (2005). Bases and implications of learning in the cerebellum—Adaptive control and internal model mechanism. In C.I. DeZeeuw & F. Cicirata (Eds.), Creating coordination in the cerebellum:Progress in brain research (Vol. 148, pp.95-109). Oxford, England: Elsevier.

Ito, M. (2007). On “How working memory and the cerebellum collaborate to produce creativity and innovation” by L.R. Vandervert, P.H. Schimpf, and H. Liu. Creativity Research Journal, 19, 35-38.

Vandervert, L. (2003a). How working memory and cognitive modeling functions of the cerebellum contribute to discoveries in mathematics. New Ideas in Psychology, 21, 159-175.

Vandervert, L. (2003b). The neurophysiological basis of innovation. In L. V. Shavinina (Ed.) The international handbook on innovation (pp. 17-30). Oxford, England: Elsevier Science.

Vandervert, L. (2007). Cognitive functions of the cerebellum explain how Ericsson’s deliberate practice produces giftedness. High Ability Studies, 18, 89-92.

Vandervert, L.(2009-a). Working Memory, the Cognitive Functions of the Cerebellum and the Child Prodigy. In L. Shavinina (Ed.), The International Handbook on Giftedness (pp. 295-316). The Netherlands: Springer Science.

Vandervert, L. (2009-b). The appearance of the child prodigy 10,000 years ago: An evolutionary and developmental explanation. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 30, 15-32.

Vandervert, L., Schimpf, P., & Liu, H. (2007a). How working memory and the cerebellum collaborate to produce creativity and innovation. Creativity Research Journal, 19, 1-18.

Vandervert, L. (in press-a) The evolution of language from the cerebro-cerebellar blending of visual-spatial working memory with vocalizations. The Journal of Mind and Behavior.

Vandervert, L. (in press-b). How the blending of cerebellar internal models can explain the evolution of thought and language. Cerebellum.

Vandervert, L., Schimpf, P., & Liu, H. (2007b). Authors’ responses to commentaries. Creativity Research Journal,19, 59-68.