Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N
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Simon’s scissors and ecological psychology in design for behaviour change [PDF]
Copyright @ 2012 Social Science Electronic PublishingThis paper introduces a series of working papers (Lockton 2011a,b and 2012a-f) providing a background literature review of different disciplinary perspectives on behaviour, informing the development of
Lockton, D
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Musical Affordances and the Gestalt Legacy: enriching music perception
In the current cognitive theory of music, concepts of Gestalt psychology are referred to in various ways. For example, neurocognitive models of music perception address the formation of auditory Gestalts as a stage in the formation of meaning.
Klotz Sebastian
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Conflicts of Jurisdiction Under the New Restatement [PDF]
In many scenarios, domestic robot will regularly encounter unknown objects. In such cases, top-down knowledge about the object for detection, recognition, and classification cannot be used.
Kootstra, Gert, Kragic, Danica
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Iconic store and partial report [PDF]
The iconic store has recently been challenged on the grounds that data in its favor may have resulted from some procedural artifacts. The display-instruction compatibility and perceptual grouping hypotheses were reexamined in two experiments with the ...
Chow, Siu
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The psychology of voting action : on the psychological origins of electoral research, 1939-1964 [PDF]
This article examines the development of psychologically oriented voting behavior research between 1939-1964. It intends to show the psychological basis of the Columbia and Michigan approaches and its implications for the analysis of electoral behavior ...
Visser, Max
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The parallel programming of landing position in saccadic eye movement sequences [PDF]
Saccadic eye movements occur in sequences, gathering new information about the visual environment to support successful task completion. Here we examine the control of these saccadic sequences and specifically the extent to which the spatial aspects of ...
Gilchrist, Iain D. +2 more
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Perceptual grouping abilities in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: exploring patterns of ability in relation to grouping type and levels of development [PDF]
This study further investigates findings of impairment in Gestalt, but not global processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) [Brosnan, Scott, Fox, & Pye, 2004].
Annaz +44 more
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Expert interpretation of bar and line graphs: The role of graphicacy in reducing the effect of graph format. [PDF]
The distinction between informational and computational equivalence of representations, first articulated by Larkin and Simon (1987) has been a fundamental principle in the analysis of diagrammatic reasoning which has been supported empirically on ...
Ali +33 more
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Local and global gestalt laws: A neurally based spectral approach [PDF]
A mathematical model of figure-ground articulation is presented, taking into account both local and global gestalt laws. The model is compatible with the functional architecture of the primary visual cortex (V1).
Citti, Giovanna +2 more
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