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Alpha ERS-ERD Pattern during Divergent and Convergent Thinking Depends on Individual Differences on Metacontrol [PDF]

Journal of Intelligence, 2023
The role of metacontrol in creativity is theoretically assumed, but experimental evidence is still lacking. In this study, we investigated how metacontrol affects creativity from the perspective of individual differences. Sixty participants completed the
Chunlei Liu, Yuhong Lin, Chaoqun Ye, Jiaqin Yang, Wenguang He   +4 more
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Regular Vigorous-Intensity Physical Activity and Walking Are Associated with Divergent but not Convergent Thinking in Japanese Young Adults [PDF]

Brain Sciences, 2021
The beneficial effects of regular physical activity (PA) on cognitive functions have received much attention. Recent research suggests that regular PA may also enhance creative thinking, an indispensable cognitive factor for invention and innovation ...
Chong Chen, Yasuhiro Mochizuki, Kosuke Hagiwara, Masako Hirotsu, Shin Nakagawa   +4 more
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Convergent thinking, divergent thinking, and openness to experience as predictors of academic success among high-achieving and typical-achieving medical students [PDF]

BMC Medical Education
Background Creativity-related cognitive processes and personality traits are not often examined together in educational contexts, particularly when discussing high-achieving subgroups of medical students.
Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi, Ahmed Mohamed Alansari, Abdelhalim Deifalla, Mark A. Runco, Reginald P. Sequeira, Ghazi A. Alotaibi, Aseel AlSaleh   +6 more
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Ayahuasca enhances creative divergent thinking while decreasing conventional convergent thinking. [PDF]

Psychopharmacology (Berl), 2016
Ayahuasca is a South American psychotropic plant tea traditionally used in Amazonian shamanism. The tea contains the psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), plus β-carboline alkaloids with monoamine oxidase-inhibiting properties.
Kuypers KP, Riba J, de la Fuente Revenga M, Barker S, Theunissen EL, Ramaekers JG.   +5 more
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External information environment required for cross disciplinary thinking in large language models based on interdisciplinary lay summary writing [PDF]

Scientific Reports
External information stimuli are crucial for humans to reintegrate knowledge and activate cross-disciplinary thinking. This study investigates how the external information environment affects LLMs’ cross-disciplinary thinking through analyzing generated ...
Mei Chen, Yijun Su, Junyuan Guo, Xiaoying Liu   +3 more
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Divergent Thinking and Convergent Thinking in the Mathematical Creative Thinking Process in terms of Student Brain Dominance

Southeast Asian Mathematics Education Journal, 2021
Convergent and divergent thinking play an essential role in a person’s creative thinking process to solve problems, which highlights the significance of this research.
Bayu Sukmaangara, Sri Tirto Madawistama
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The effect of self-related humor on convergent and divergent thinking

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023
Humour enhances creativity, but the question is whether different types of humour have a similar effect on improving individual creativity. It is evident that negative humour style is negatively related to creativity, while positive humour style is ...
Md. Shahinoor Rahman, Zhijin Zhou
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THE ASSOCIATION OF CREATIVITY WITH DIVERGENT AND CONVERGENT THINKING

Psychiatria Danubina, 2021
The inspirational aspect of creativity remains shrouded in mystery. Methodological problems have hindered research into creativity, and such a situation makes the interpretation and comparison of studies problematic. The link between creativity and psychopathology is overstated by the print, electronic, and celluloid media.
Javaid, Syed Fahad, Pandarakalam, James Paul   +1 more
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Metacontrol of human creativity: The neurocognitive mechanisms of convergent and divergent thinking

NeuroImage, 2020
Creativity is a complex construct that would benefit from a more comprehensive mechanistic approach. Two processes have been defined to be central to creative cognition: divergent and convergent thinking.
Weitao Zhang, Zsuzsika Sjoerds, Bernhard Hommel   +2 more
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Student Computational Thinking in Solving Sequence Problems Based on Learning Styles

Qalamuna, 2022
The purpose of this study is to describe students' computational thinking in solving sequence problems based on learning styles. This research approach is qualitative research with exploratory and descriptive research types.
Miswanto Miswanto, Toto Nusantara, Abdur Rahman As'ari, Sukoriyanto Sukoriyanto   +3 more
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