Creative thinking: a brain computer interface of art

The artistic expressions are universally recognized as creative. It might be considered a window on the mind since an artwork implies a blend of implicit and explicit thinking processes and results in behaviors mediated by some media or epistemic instruments. In this sense, art may be seen as creativity enacted, since the mind/brain must interact with the surroundings so to close the cognitive loop open by inspiration. We can state that creativity is a part of every human daily activity, so that, to understand individuals’ behavior, abilities, and the mechanisms of the mind, we must start from the creative process, as, in general, the search of a different (innovative) solution to a problem. In this paper, we will treat the cognitive aspect of the creative process and we describe an example of creativity enacted by the use of a Brain Computer Interface: the mind the chair project.