The editor of this journal, Mark Runco, has assembled a diverse and knowledgeable collection of scholars and researchers from the fields of psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience to comment on the working mem-ory/cerebellar theory of creativity (Vandervert, 2003a, 2003b; Vandervert, Schimpf & Liu, this issue). We appreciate the opportunity the journal has provided in this special issue to address concerns and to further clarify and extend the tenets and implications of the theory. Because the working memory/cerebellar theory critically hinges on arguments and evidence concerning just exactly how the cerebellum plays its adaptive role for working memory in the production of creativity and innovation, we have begin our responses to the commentaries with a discussion of the developmental origins of mental models and cerebellar control models during early infancy. This approach has the dual benefit of elucidating further details of the theory while simultaneously addressing many of the commentators' questions at the outset.
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