Each group fed their answers back to the main group during an interactive discussion between participants, researchers and the creative advisors, this allowed illumination and clarification of points raised, particularly around emotions at diagnosis.
First, four studies demonstrated that both priming darkness and actual dim illumination improved creative performance.
It would eventually affect his eyesight, but also lead to a sudden illumination of his creative vision.
In other words, science involves new illuminations, messiness, even creative destruction, but literature is something else entirely: the common reader needs clarity, simplicity and a hopeful outlook, a sense that, in Wells's words, progress is "not inevitable but interesting and possible".
But what dooms the creative brief, and what can turn illumination into ambiguity, is the absence of a relationship between the people who create the product and the people who create the marketing.
From 6 February, it's showing Illumination, an exhibition of artwork and creative writing by inmates of secure hospitals and prisons across Wales.
The phases of preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification are characteristic of creative thinkers generally but do not guarantee that a worthwhile product will ensue.
Although its rippling piano sounds were pleasant, "Illuminations 2001" lacked the sense of creative interplay possible only when a musician and dancer are improvising on the spot.
A sense of sacred community hovers around visionary art events because of the holiness of the creative imagination and the importance of sharing our deepest inner illuminations and strangely detailed worlds of the Beyond Within. .
Richard Alston has close creative affinities with Benjamin Britten, whose music has inspired two of his finest works: the tenderly elegiac Lachrymae and Illuminations, an exploration of the relationship between the precocious poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine.
