Knowledge Of World Drives Innovation
Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found that semantic knowledge is essential for human innovation. The study suggests that understanding how objects connect, combined with social learning, significantly boosts the ability to create new ideas.
Why it matters
Understanding the cognitive foundations of innovation helps explain how humans solve complex problems and could inform future educational or AI development strategies.
Our capacity for innovation, rather than being the work of random variation, is based on an intrinsic understanding of how the world works, report researchers in a new study from Karolinska Institutet and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, published in PNAS.
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