Aerobic Exercise and Creative Potential: Immediate and Residual Effects

Blanchette, David; Ramocki, Stephen P.; O'del, John N.; Casey, Michael

doi:10.1080/10400419.2005.9651483

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“…Unlike previous work [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], we did not observe any beneficial effect of acute walking exercise on creativity task performance. This is an important observation as it brings light to the possibility that acute exercise may not robustly enhance cognitive creativity performance.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…Collectively, the current research suggests that exercise prior to a creativity task may help to facilitate creativity [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. This aligns with other work on exercise and memory [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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confidence: 70%

“…This may help spawn the development of additional research to see if, for example, exercise intensity or exercise modality may have a differential effect on cognitive creativity. As stated, majority of the work on this topic has provided some suggestive evidence that exercise can acutely improve creativity [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. However, not all work demonstrates such a beneficial effect.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As noted, emerging work suggests that exercise may help to enhance creativity [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. The mechanism(s) to explain this potential relationship is not clear.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Exercise psychologists have also become increasingly interested in examining whether exercise can enhance other cognitive parameters, namely cognitive creativity. Compared to research examining the effects of exercise on memory, this emerging line of research examining the effects of exercise on creativity has been considerably less investigated [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

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The Experimental Effects of Acute Walking on Cognitive Creativity Performance

Patterson¹,

Frith²,

Loprinzi³

2018

J Behav Health

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To examine the experimental effects of acute moderate-intensity walking exercise on cognitive creativity, 20 young adults (M age = 21.3 years) completed a within-subject experimental protocol involving three trials on a single laboratory visit. Trials 1 and 2 were control trials involving creativity task performance. Following Trial 2, participants completed a 15-minute acute bout of treadmill walking exercise. After this, participants completed a Trial 3 creativity assessment. For all trials, both convergent (remote associates task) and divergent (alternative uses task) creativities were assessed. There was no statistically significant experimental effect of acute exercise on convergent creativity performance (F = 0.48; P = 0.62; η 2 = 0.05). Results were similar for divergent creativity. Our findings do not provide evidence that acute walking enhances cognitive creativity. ARTICLE HISTORY

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The Experimental Effects of Acute Walking on Cognitive Creativity Performance

Patterson¹,

Frith²,

Loprinzi³

2018

J Behav Health

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Change it Up: Inactivity and Repetitive Activity Reduce Creative Thinking

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Aghakhani

Labroo³

et al. 2018

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Across three experiments, we show that a change in the levels of physical activity increases creative thinking, whereas inactivity or repetitive activity lowers it. Participants walking forward were more creative the first few minutes of initiating physical activity than those sitting, or those merely watching changing scenery, and these effects dissipated when they continued the forward movement over time (within 8 minutes). Furthermore, merely anticipating a change in physical activity, for example, when participants were aware a task is coming to its conclusion, also increased creative thinking. We hypothesize that a change in physical activity cues the need to navigate new situations, and thus, can increase mental flexibility and creative thinking to deal with new circumstances. But once people habituate to their physical state, either of being at rest or being in motion, their level of creative thinking also returns to baseline levels. We confirm that mood, feelings of achievement, and energy are not responsible for the observed effects.

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A Review of Experimental Research on Embodied Creativity: Revisiting the Mind–Body Connection

Frith

Miller

Loprinzi

2019

Journal of Creative Behavior

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A growing body of experimental work highlights the potential value of unstructured, interactive, or spontaneous motions, including gestures, dance, shifting body postures, physical object-manipulation, drawing, etc. to favorably impact creative performance. However, despite these favorable findings, to our knowledge, no systematic review has been conducted to explore the totality of evidence for embodied activities in this arena. Thus, the objective of this paper was to systematically evaluate the potential effects of embodied experimental manipulations on traditionally assessed creativity outcomes. A systematic review was conducted utilizing PubMed, PsychInfo, Sports Discus, and Google Scholar databases. The 20 studies evaluated employed a variety of methodological approaches regarding study design, embodied manipulation, and selection of specific creativity outcomes. Despite these variations, embodied movement robustly enhanced creativity across nearly all studies (90%), with no studies showing a detrimental effect. Based on the evaluation of the studies reviewed, several common themes emerged. These included the relevance of symbolic metaphors and distributed embodied cognitions, selection of embodied modality, specific measurement considerations, as well as the importance for implementing true, inactive control conditions in embodied creativity research. This review expands on these findings and places them in the context of improving future embodied creativity research.

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Aerobic Exercise and Creative Potential: Immediate and Residual Effects

Cited by 38 publications

References 17 publications

The Experimental Effects of Acute Walking on Cognitive Creativity Performance

The Experimental Effects of Acute Walking on Cognitive Creativity Performance

Change it Up: Inactivity and Repetitive Activity Reduce Creative Thinking

A Review of Experimental Research on Embodied Creativity: Revisiting the Mind–Body Connection

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