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The relation between gray matter morphology and divergent thinking in adolescents and young adults. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Adolescence and early adulthood are developmental time periods during which creative cognition is highly important for adapting to environmental changes.
Janna Cousijn +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 What factors predict the originality of domain-specific idea generation? Replicating and extending an earlier study using a Design Product Ideation task in an introductory university design course, the present research, grounded in the componential ...
Abbey K. Erwin +2 more
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The role of divergent thinking in interpersonal trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: creative aspects
Creativity Studies, 2023 Interpersonal trust relies on positive expectations about other people. Social psychology distinguishes ingroup (individuals share social identity, e.g., family) from outgroup trust (individuals do not share social identity, e.g., strangers).
Massimiliano Palmiero +8 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 +2 more
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The Neuroscience of Divergent Thinking [PDF]
Activitas Nervosa Superior, 2014 Abstract Creativity plays a role in innovation, development, and health. Recent research has used neuroscientific methods to study originality, novelty, insight, divergent thinking, and other processes related to creative mental activity. Findings indicate that both hemispheres are involved in divergent thinking, which is accompanied by both ...
Mark A. Runco, Sureyya Yoruk
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 : Although previous research provides converging evidence for the role of posterior regions of the brain (including temporal, occipital, and parietal regions) involved in inhibition on creative thinking, it remains unclear as to how these regions ...
Lijie Zhang +15 more
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The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted
Tsutomu Harada
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The impact of using divergent thinking strategies on reading comprehension
Образование и наука, 2021 Introduction. Divergent thinking strategies are based on brain activity represented by a series of successive and branching questions related to a particular reading text. These strategies stimulate the minds of sixth graders to think of new stimuli such
A. Al Masri +3 more
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The Role of Non-Representational Hand Gestures in Creative Thinking
LanguagesPrevious studies suggest that representational gestures support divergent thinking and that mental imagery is necessary for gestures to aid convergent thinking. However, less is known about non-representational gesture use (i.e., beat and palm-revealing)
Gyulten Hyusein, Tilbe Göksun
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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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