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Zooming into creativity: individual differences in attentional global-local biases are linked to creative thinking.
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychology; Oct2015, Vol. 6, p1-8, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- While recent studies have investigated how processes underlying human creativity are affected by particular visual-attentional states, we tested the impact of more stable attention-related preferences. These were assessed by means of Navon's global-local task, in which participants respond to the global or local features of large letters constructed from smaller letters. Three standard measures were derived from this task: the sizes of the global precedence effect, the global interference effect (i.e., the impact of incongruent letters at the global level on local processing), and the local interference effect (i.e., the impact of incongruent letters at the local level on global processing). These measures were correlated with performance in a convergent-thinking creativity task (the Remote Associates Task), a divergent-thinking creativity task (the Alternate Uses Task), and a measure of fluid intelligence (Raven's matrices). Flexibility in divergent thinking was predicted by the local interference effect while convergent thinking was predicted by intelligence only. We conclude that a stronger attentional bias to visual information about the "bigger picture" promotes cognitive flexibility in searching for multiple solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CREATIVE thinking
ATTENTIONAL bias
CREATIVE ability
TASKS
THOUGHT & thinking
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16641078
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 111384807
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01647