Publications by Liane Gabora



Academic Papers and Book Chapters

Gabora, L. How does the creative process work? Under revision.

Gabora, L. & Russon, A. The evolution of human intelligence. In (R. Sternberg & S. Kaufman, Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

Gabora, L. & Aerts, D. (in press). A mathematical model of the emergence of an integrated worldview. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.

Gabora, L. & Holmes, N. (in press). Dangling from a tassel on the fabric of socially constructed reality: Reflections on the creative writing process. In (A. Cropley, D. Cropley, J. Kaufman, & M. Runco, Eds.) The Dark Side of Creativity. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

Gabora, L. & Kaufman, S. (in press). Evolutionary perspectives on creativity. In (J. Kaufman & R. Sternberg, Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

O'Connor, B. & Gabora, L. (in press). A general dynamical process model of the development of pathological belief systems. In F. Orsucci (Ed.) Mind Force. Nova Science. To be reprinted in a special issue of Chaos and Complexity Letters.

Gabora, L. (in press). Can an understanding of how culture evolves awaken a sense of meaning in life? In (D. Aerts, B. D'Hooghe, & N. Note, Eds.) Worldviews, Science, and Us. Singapore: World Scientific.

Gabora, L. (in press). Revenge of the 'neurds': Characterizing creative thought in terms of the structure and dynamics of human memory. Creativity Research Journal.

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J. & Gabora, L. (in press). A case for applying an abstracted quantum formalism to cognition. New Ideas in Psychology. [quant-ph/0404068]

DiPaola, S. & Gabora, L. (2009). Incorporating characteristics of human creativity into an evolutionary art algorithm. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 10(2), 97-110.

Gabora, L. (2008). The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition. Cognitive Systems Research, 9(1-2), 104-113.

Gabora, L., Rosch, E., & Aerts, D. (2008). Toward an ecological theory of concepts. Ecological Psychology, 20(1), 84-116.

Gabora, L. (2007). Mind. In (R. A. Bentley, H. D. G. Maschner, & C. Chippindale, Eds.) Handbook of Archaeological Theories. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira Press, (pp. 283-296).

Gabora, L. & Aerts, D. (2007). A cross-disciplinary framework for the description of contextually mediated change. Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, 4(15), 1-22. Republished in (I. Licata & A. Sakaji, eds.) The Physics of Emergence and Organization (pp. 109-134). London: World Scientific. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2006). The fate of evolutionary archaeology: Survival or extinction? World Archaeology, 38(4), 690-696.

Gabora, L. (2006). Self-other organization: Why early life did not evolve through natural selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 241(3), 443-450. [nlin.AO/0512025] [pdf]

Aerts, D., Czachor, M., Gabora L. & Polk, P. (2006). Soliton kinetic equations with non-Kolmogorovian structure: A new tool for biological modeling? Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 3, American Institute of Physics Publications, 810, 19-33.

Aerts, D., Bundervoet, S., Czachor, M., D'Hooghe, B., Gabora L. & Polk, P. (2006). On the foundations of the theory of evolution. In M. Locker (Ed.) Systems Theory in Philosophy and Religion, Vols I & II. Windsor, Canada: IIAS.

Gabora, L. (2005). Creative thought as a non-Darwinian evolutionary process. Journal of Creative Behavior, 39(4), 65-87. [nlin.AO/0411057] [pdf]

Gabora, L. & Aerts, D. (2005). Evolution as context-driven actualization of potential: Toward an interdisciplinary theory of change of state. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 30(1), 69-88. [q-bio.PE/0511007] [pdf]

Aerts, D. & Gabora, L. (2005). A state-context-property model of concepts and their combinations I: The structure of the sets of contexts and properties. Kybernetes, 34(1&2), 167-191. (Special issue dedicated to Heinz Von Foerster.) [ quant-ph/0402207] [pdf]

Aerts, D. & Gabora, L. (2005). A state-context-property model of concepts and their combinations II: A Hilbert space representation. Kybernetes, 34(1&2), 192-221. (Special issue dedicated to Heinz Von Foerster.) [quant-ph/0402205] [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2004). Ideas are not replicators but minds are. Biology & Philosophy, 19(1), 127-143. [q-bio.PE/0402002] [pdf]

Aerts, D., Czachor, M., Gabora, L., Kuna, M., Posiewnik, A., Pykacz, J. & Syty, M. (2003). Quantum morphogenesis: A variation on Thom's catastrophe theory. Physical Review E, 67(5), 051926. Reprinted in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics, June 2003. [quant-ph/0211105]

Gabora, L. & Aerts, D. (2002). Contextualizing concepts using a mathematical generalization of the quantum formalism. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 14(4), 327-358. [quant-ph/0205161] [ pdf]

Gabora, L. (2002). Amplifying phenomenal information: Toward a fundamental theory of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9(8), 3-29. [adap-org/9911003] [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2002). The beer can theory of creativity. In (P. Bentley & D. Corne, Eds.) Creative Evolutionary Systems, Morgan Kauffman, San Francisco CA, 147-161. [pdf]

Aerts, D., D'Hondt, E., & Gabora, L. (2000). Why the disjunction in quantum logic is not classical. Foundations of Physics, 30(9), 1473-1480. [quant-ph/0007041] [pdf]

Aerts, D., Aerts, S., Broekaert, J., & Gabora, L. (2000). The violation of Bell inequalities in the macroworld. Foundations of Physics, 30(9), 1387-1414. [quant-ph/0007044]] [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2000). Toward a theory of creative inklings. In (R. Ascott, Ed.) Art, Technology, and Consciousness, Intellect Press, Bristol, UK, 159-164. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2000). From a double aspect theory of information to human consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 9(2), S78.

Gabora, L. (2000). Conceptual closure: Weaving memories into an interconnected worldview. In (G. Van de Vijver & J. Chandler , Eds.) Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 901, 42-53. [pdf]

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J. & Gabora, L. (1999). Formal and informal representations of science. Foundations of Science, 4(1), 1-3.

Gabora, L. (1999). Weaving, bending, patching, mending the fabric of reality: A cognitive science perspective on worldview inconsistency. Foundations of Science, 3(2), 395-428.

Gabora, L. (1998). Autocatalytic closure in a cognitive system: A tentative scenario for the origin of culture. Psycoloquy, 9(67). [adap-org/9901002]

Gabora, L. (1997). The origin and evolution of culture and creativity. Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 1(1).

Gabora, L. (1996). A day in the life of a meme. Philosophica, 57, 901-938. (Special issue on concepts, representations, and dynamical systems.)

Gabora, L. (1995). Meme and variations: A computer model of cultural evolution. In (L. Nadel & D. Stein, Eds.) 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems, Addison-Wesley, 471-486. [pdf]

Hofstadter, D. & Gabora, L. (1989). Synopsis of a workshop on humor and cognition. Humor, 2(4), 417-440.



Papers in Conference and Workshop Proceedings

Gabora, L. & Leijnen, S. (2009). The tradeoff between degree of creativity and number of creators in a computational model of society. In B. Cooper & V. Danos (Eds.) Proceedings of Developments in Computational Models: Computational Models from Nature (DCM 09) -- A workshop in association with the 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP). July 11, Rhodes, Greece.

Aerts, D., Aerts, S. & Gabora, L. (2009). Experimental evidence for quantum structure in cognition. In: P. Bruza, W. Lawless, K. van Rijsbergen, & D. Sofge (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quantum Interaction, (pp. 59-70). March 2009, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruken, Germany.

Gabora, L. (2008). Modeling cultural dynamics. Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium 1: Adaptive Agents in a Cultural Context,. Nov 7-9, The Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington VA, (pp. 18-25). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2008). EVOC: A computer model of cultural evolution. In V. Sloutsky, B. Love & K. McRae (Eds.), 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington DC, July 23-26, North Salt Lake, UT: Sheridan Publishing. [pdf] [See the poster]

DiPaola, S. & Gabora, L. (2007). Incorporating characteristics of human creativity into an evolutionary art algorithm. In (D. Thierens, Ed.), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO) July 7-11, 2007, University College London, England, pp. 2442-2449. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2007). Cultural evolution entails (creativity entails (concept combination entails quantum structure)). In: P. Bruza, W. Lawless, K. van Rijsbergen, & D. Sofge (Eds.) Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium 8: Quantum Interaction, March 26-28, 2007, Stanford University, pp. 106-113.

Aerts, D., Czachor, M., Gabora, L., & Polk, P. (2005). Application of quantum formalisms to biological rhythms. In (G. Adenier, Ed.) Proc. Third International Conference on Quantum Theory: Reconsiderations of Foundations, June 7-12, Vaxjo, Sweden.

Aerts, D., Bundervoet, S., Czachor, M., & Gabora, L. (2005). On the foundations of the theory of evolution. In (G. E. Lasker, Ed.) Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics: Second Symposium on Systems Theory in Religion and Philosophy, August 3, 2005, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Gabora, L. & Aerts, D. (2005). Distilling the essence of an evolutionary process, and implications for a formal description of culture. In (W. Kistler, Ed.) Proceedings of the Center for Human Evolution: Workshop 4 on Cultural Evolution, Foundation for the Future.

Gabora, L. (2004). Two transitions in the evolution of human consciousness. In (M. Zussman, Ed.) Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Berkeley, CA, 24-28 March.

Gabora, L. (2003). Contextual focus: A cognitive explanation for the cultural transition of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic. In (R. Alterman & D. Hirsch, Eds.) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston MA, July 31-August 2. Hillsdale NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Gabora, L. (2002). Cognitive mechanisms underlying the creative process. In (T. Hewett and T. Kavanagh, Eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Creativity and Cognition, October 13-16, Loughborough University, UK, pp. 126-133.

Gabora, L. & Aerts, D. (2002). Contextualizing concepts. Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference (Special Track 'Categorization and Concept Representation: Models and Implications'), Pensacola Florida, May 14-17, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 148-152.

Gabora, L. (2000). Linkage disequilibrium in human creativity. In (R. Ascott, Ed.) Proceedings of the Third International CAiiA-STAR Conference, Consciousness Reframed, August, Newport, Whales.

Gabora, L. (2000). From a double aspect theory of information to human consciousness. In (Cleeremans, A., Ed.) Proceedings of ASSC4, An international conference on The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Unity, and Dissociation, June 29-July 2, Brussels, Belgium.

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J. & Gabora, L. (2000). Intrinsic contextuality as the crux of consciousness. In (K. Yasue, Ed.) Proceedings of Fundamental Approaches to Consciousness, Tokyo '99. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Gabora, L. (1999). Conceptual closure: Weaving memories into an interconnected worldview. In (G. Van de Vijver & J. Chandler, Eds.) Proceedings of Closure: an International Conference on Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics, held by the Research Community on Evolution and Complexity and the Washington Evolutionary Systems Society, May 3-5, Gent, Belgium.

Aerts, D., Broekaert, J. & Gabora, L. (1999). Nonclassical contextuality in cognition: Borrowing from quantum mechanical approaches to indeterminism and observer dependence. In (R. Campbell, Ed.) Dialogues: Proceedings of Mind IV Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

Gabora, L. (1996). Culture, evolution, and computation. In (T. Furuhashi, Ed.) Proceedings of the Second Online Workshop on Evolutionary Computation. Society of Fuzzy Theory and Systems.

Gabora, L. (1992). Should I stay or should I go: Coordinating biological needs with continuously-updated assessments of the environment. (A computer model.) In (S. Wilson, J. A. Mayer & H. Roitblat, Eds.) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, MIT Press, 156-162. [pdf]

Gabora, L. & Colgan, P. (1990). A model of the mechanisms underlying exploratory behavior. In (S. Wilson & J. A. Mayer, Eds.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, MIT Press, 475-484. [pdf]



Commentaries and Reviews

Gabora, L. (2009). Review of 'Epigenetic principles of evolution' by Nelson R. Cabej. Quarterly Review of Biology, 84(2), p. 193.

Gabora, L. (2007). Why the creative process is not Darwinian. Commentary on 'The creative process in Picasso's Guernica sketches: Monotonic improvements versus nonmonotonic variants' by D. K. Simonton. Creativity Research Journal, 19(4), 361-365.

Gabora, L. (2007). Epigenetic and cultural evolution are not Darwinian. Commentary on E. Jablonka & M. J. Lamb, Synopsis of 'Evolution in Four Dimensions'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(4), p. 371.

Provencal, A. & Gabora, L. (2007). A compelling overview of art therapy techniques and outcomes. Review of 'Art Therapy has Many Faces' by J. A. Rubin. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1(4), 255-256.

Gabora, L. (2007). Perspectives on Artistic Creativity. A Review of M. Turner (Ed.) 'The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity'. Philosophical Psychology, 20(5), 669-674.

Gabora, L. (2004). GAS doesn't 'turn the engine' when states are sequential or context-dependent. Commentary on D. L. Hull, R. E. Langman & S. S. Glenn (2001).  A general account of selection: Biology, immunology, and behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27(6), 901-902. [pdf]

Gabora, L. (2000). Nonlinear science and the psyche. Review of (Franco Orsucci, Ed.) 'The Complex Matters of the Mind'. Foundations of Science, 5(3), 391-393.

Gabora, L. (1999). To imitate is human: A review of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Systems 2(2). Reprinted with permission in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6(5), 77-81.

Gabora, L. (1999). The interwoven conceptual matrix of the cultural replicator. Commentary on 'Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change' by K. N. Laland et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23(1), 152-153.

Gabora, L. (1999). Complexity in the abstract and the concrete: An interview with Bruce Sawhill. Foundations of Science, 4(1), 95-105.

Gabora, L. (1999). Grounded in perception yet transformed into amodal symbols. Commentary on 'Perceptual symbol systems' by L. W. Barsalou. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(4), 577-660.

Gabora, L. (1999). Consciousness and dynamical, holographic models of memory: Reply to Combs on Gabora on Origin-Culture, Psycoloquy, 10(43) Origin Culture (12).

Gabora, L. (1999). Motivation and the origin of culture: Reply to Prudkov on Gabora on Origin-Culture, Psycoloquy, 10(42) Origin Culture (11).

Gabora, L. (1999). Potential Refutations of the Autocatalytic Mind Hypothesis: Replies to Edmonds, Dewitte, Orsucci, and Preti on Gabora on Origin-Culture , Psycoloquy, 10(20) Origin Culture (8).

Gabora, L. (1994). The birth of a creative idea. Commentary on The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms by Margaret Boden. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(3), 543.

Gabora, L. (1993). Cultural transitions occur when mind parasites Learn new tricks. Commentary on Origins of the Modern Mind by Merlin Donald. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(4), 761-762.

Gabora, L. (1993). Cultural learning as the transition mechanism in an evolutionary process. Commentary on Cultural Learning by Tomasello et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(3), 519.



Doctoral Dissertation

Gabora, L. (2001). Cognitive mechanisms underlying the origin and evolution of culture.



Short Stories and Nonacademic Publications

Gabora, L. (2004). The Glory of Groove, SoMa Literary Review.

Gabora, L. (2003). Veils, SoMa Literary Review. [as published: condensed version] [complete version]

Gabora, L. (2003). Violation, Fiction, 18(2), 121-134.

Created October 1998. Writing and artwork by Liane Gabora. Do not use without permission.