Gender and creativity: An overview of psychological and neuroscientific literature

The topic of gender differences in creativity is one that generates substantial scientific and public interest, but also courts considerable controversy. Owing to the heterogeneous nature of the findings associated with this line of research, the general picture often appears puzzling or obscure. This article presents a selective overview of psychological and neuroscientific literature that has a relevant bearing on the theme of gender and creativity. Topics that are explored include the definition and methods of assessing creativity, a summary of behavioral investigations on gender in relation to creativity, postulations that have been put forward to understand gender differences in creative achievement, gender-based differences in the structure and function of the brain, gender-related differences in behavioral performance on tasks of normative cognition, and neuroscientific studies of gender and creativity. The article ends with a detailed discussion of the idea that differences between men and women in creative cognition are best explained with reference to the gender-dependent adopted strategies or cognitive style when faced with generative tasks

Semiotics Performance By Marco De Marinis In Syair Wasiat Renungan Masa Tuan Guru Kyai Haji Abdul Madjid

Analyzing the text of Syair Wasiat Renungan Masa using semiotic approach by de Marinis can answer the basic competences, namely: 1) to identify the information of the local folk poetry dealing with the analysis of the co-text, 2) to summarize the content of the folk poetry relating to the analysis of the context, and 3) to analyze the structure and the language of the folk poetry engaging with the analysis of the text. This study discovers 1) The text of syair Wasiat Renungan Masa: (a). Structure of sound: orchestral sound, a symbol of sound, and rhyme. (b) The use of words: vocabularies, diction, denotation, connotation, figurative language, imagery and rhetoric. 2) Social and Cultural Contexts found in syair Wasiat Renungan Masa in the community of NW recitation: (a) Social context relates to gender, social status, educational background, the setting of place and time. (b). Cultural context: organizational guidelines, religious advice, state guidelines. 3). Co-text in syair Wasiat Renungan Masa: paralinguistics, kinetic, proxemic, material element, intertextuality. 4) Teaching materials of Syair Wasiat Renungan Masa for Junior High School NW that cover: Lesson Plans that consists of Core Competence, Basic Competence, Indicators, Objectives, Materials, Strategy, Media, Source, Activity, and Evaluation/Assessment