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      Bebop on the Hockey Pitch: Cross-Disciplinary Creativity and Skills Transfer

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      Frontiers in Psychology
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      creativity, transfer, domain-general, jazz, hockey

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          This paper generalizes task-specific (but dissimilar) skills, from the jazz concert stage and from the hockey field, into the domain of creativity research. What is sought are clues to what skills or creativities are transferable across dissimilar domains. It is argued that certain domain-general skills are transferable across domains, but a domain-general or ‘c’ creative capacity, is not. Rather than transferring some over-arching capacity to be universally creative, this research highlights factors likely to facilitate successful cross-disciplinary creative expression and posits a correlation between the capacities for discriminant pattern-recognition, task-specific expertise, and sensory data-collection, and the transferability of creativity. Of particular significance is the capacity for informed, selective pattern-breaking based on the ‘depth’ or ‘insider’ perspective of the domain expert; such ‘ expert variation and selective retention’ provides creative choices and responses that are likely to be perceived by the field as creative: valuable, novel and surprising. The author is a renowned Australian studio bassist, jazz musician, and music educator who also plays field hockey for Australia at Masters level. His recently completed Ph.D. thesis, based on a performance and composition career spanning 46 years, takes the form of an analytical autoethnography drawn from personal field notes, diaries and interviews as well as published record albums.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                09 February 2016
                2016
                : 7
                : 123
                Affiliations
                [1]Department of Design, Communication and IT, University of Newcastle, Newcastle NSW, Australia
                Author notes

                Edited by: Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, UK

                Reviewed by: Evangelos Himonides, University College London, UK; Roger Lister Kneebone, Imperial College London, UK

                *Correspondence: Clive M. Harrison, clive@ 123456clivemusic.com.au

                This article was submitted to Performance Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

                Article
                10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00123
                4746313
                26903926
                7327ae9d-0861-489b-9bda-b987041161f1
                Copyright © 2016 Harrison.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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                : 24 November 2015
                : 22 January 2016
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                creativity,transfer,domain-general,jazz,hockey
                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                creativity, transfer, domain-general, jazz, hockey

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