Creative Thinking for Research Eight empirically grounded frameworks from cognitive science, applied to computer science and AI research. Unlike ad-hoc brainstorming, each framework here is backed by decades of creativity research — from Koestler's bisociation to Kauffman's adjacent possible. They target distinct cognitive operations: combining, reformulating, analogizing, constraining, inverting, abstracting, exploring boundaries, and holding contradictions. When to Use This Skill - Generating genuinely novel ideas, not incremental extensions of prior work - Feeling trapped in a local optimu…