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The Effect of Changing the Balance between Right and Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex on Different Creativity Tasks: A Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation Study
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Peña, Javier; Sampedro, Agurne; Gómez-Gastiasoro, Ainara; Ibarretxe-Bilbao, Naroa; Zubiaurre-Elorza, Leire; Aguiar, Covadonga; Ojeda, Natalia – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) increases performance in some perceptual tasks. However, little is known about its effect on creativity. Although dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been postulated as an important cortical area related to creativity, the relative role of left and right DLPFC is still unclear. We aimed to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Acoustics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Creative Thinking
Music Expertise and Gender Differences in Verbal and Visual Divergent Thinking. A Behavioral Study
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Diaz Abrahan, Verónika; Sarli, Leticia; Shifres, Favio; Justel, Nadia – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
Research on creativity is a field of great relevance since it studies our capacity to create, the root of all innovation and problem solving. Some factors, like personality, motivation and artistic knowledge, are known to influence creativity. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of music expertise and gender on creativity and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Creative Thinking, Musicians, Expertise
Foraging for New Ideas: Search and Research in Divergent Thinking Tasks
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Martín-Brufau, Ramón; Berná, Javier Corbalán – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
More than 50 years since the introduction of the concept of divergent production, little progress has been made in the development of parsimonious theoretical models that sufficiently explain creativity. Recently, the optimal foraging theory has been used to explain the search for items in memory tasks, suggesting the correspondence between the…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
Creativity, Psychopathology, and Emotion Processing: A Liberal Response Bias for Remembering Negative Information Is Associated with Higher Creativity
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Drus, Marina; Kozbelt, Aaron; Hughes, Robert R. – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
To what extent do more creative people process emotional information differently than less creative people? This study examined the role of emotion processing in creativity and its implications for the creativity-psychopathology association. A total of 117 participants performed a memory recognition task for negative, positive, and neutral words;…
Descriptors: Creativity, Psychopathology, Correlation, Memory
From Storyboard to Story: Animation Content Development
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Mou, Tsai-Yun; Jeng, Tay-Sheng; Chen, Chien-Hsu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
This research focused on a new method in the development of animation story content, which could shorten the creation process and arouse new ideas. Two phases of experiments were conducted to explore this reversed model. The first phase is a pretest of participants' creativity, which was a base for further examination the relationship between…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Task Analysis, Animation
Children's Creative Potential: An Empirical Study of Measurement Issues
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Lubart, Todd; Pacteau, Chantal; Jacquet, Anne-Yvonne; Caroff, Xavier – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Relations between measures of creative potential and different scoring methods were examined in 154 French schoolchildren. The "Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production" (TCT-DP), parallel lines task from the "Torrance Test for Creative Thinking," and an object-based creative drawing task were used. Factor analysis of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Freehand Drawing, Scoring, Factor Analysis