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Task

home
studio

PPB = Home studio

does not
exist

is
required

Ratio
decidendi

is
important

suitable space provided
by the employer

takes most
time

for a musician
practice is important

task1 Intermediate

level

place1

taxpayer
musician

employer place2

task2

Met

Drucker

concert
hall

practice

perform at
concerts concert

violinist

home
studio

Facts

Fig. 6.5 Cousino case applied to reinterpret the Drucker case by introducing the category suitable
space ( Dashed lines means provided by, dotted lines mean designated space for, and dot-dash lines
means performed at PPB is principal place of business .)

vide us with many new approaches to model the reinterpretation process. (See, for
example [ 21 , 65 , 66 ].)

6.2.3 Role of Low-Level Perceptual Similarities in Stimulating
Novel Conceptual Associations

Finally, we present a third approach to creativity in which we assessed the role of low-
level perceptual similarities—namely similarities with respect to shape, color, tex-
ture, etc.—on emergent features when two images are juxtaposed. A feature related
to a metaphor is considered emergent if it is not normally related to either of the
two terms of the metaphor alone. For example, in “Her gaze, a flash of diamond”,
'seduction' is an emergent feature as it is not normally related to 'gaze' or 'diamond'
[ 16 ]. A major methodological problem in working with images is in determining the
degree of low-level perceptual similarities between two given pictures. One alterna-
tive is to ask the participants to rate the degree of perceptual similarities between
pairs of pictures, but the drawback is that when we look at a picture, conceptual and
perceptual features interact heavily, and it is difficult to be certain that only perceptual