Contrasting Divergent and Convergent Thinking by Electroencephalography and Eye Tracking

Laspia, Alessandro; Montagna, Francesca; Törlind, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-5974-3_16

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“…(Alexiou et al, 2011;Hu & Shealy, 2019;Shealy et al, 2018). The active use of distinct cognitive functions during design is observable in the brain (Goel, 2014;Goldschmidt, 2016;Laspia et al, 2019;Shealy et al, 2017) (Table 2). For example, the left prefrontal cortex (PFC) is highly activated during brainstorming early in the process, but when using morphological analysis, the left PFC becomes more activated towards the end of the process (Shealy & Gero, 2019).…”

Section: Concept Generation Techniquesmentioning

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Temporal Dynamics of Brain Activation During Three Concept Generation Techniques

Milovanovic¹,

Hu²,

Shealy³

et al. 2021

Proc. Des. Soc.

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The research presented in this paper explores features of temporal design neurocognition by comparing regions of activation in the brain during concept generation. A total of 27 engineering graduate students used brainstorming, morphological analysis, and TRIZ to generate concepts to design problems. Students' brain activation in their prefrontal cortex (PFC) was measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Temporal activations were compared between techniques. When using brainstorming and morphological analysis, highly activated regions are consistently situated in the medial and right part of the PFC over time. For both techniques, the temporal neuro-physiological patterns are similar. Cognitive functions associated to the medial and right part of the PFC suggest an association with divergent thinking and adaptative decision making. In contrast, highly activated regions over time when using TRIZ appear in the medial or the left part of the prefrontal cortex, usually associated with goal directed planning.

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Section: Concept Generation Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temporal Dynamics of Brain Activation During Three Concept Generation Techniques

Milovanovic¹,

Hu²,

Shealy³

et al. 2021

Proc. Des. Soc.

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Contrasting Divergent and Convergent Thinking by Electroencephalography and Eye Tracking

Laspia

Montagna

Törlind

2019

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

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Review of the use of neurophysiological and biometric measures in experimental design research

Borgianni

Maccioni

2020

AIEDAM

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AbstractDesign is inherently affected by human-related factors and it is of no surprise that the fine-tuning of instruments capable of measuring aspects of human behavior has attracted interest in the design field. The recalled instruments include a variety of devices that capture and quantitatively assess people's unintentional and unconscious reactions and that are generally referred as neurophysiological or biometric. The number of experimental applications of these instruments in design was extremely limited as of 2016, when Lohmeyer and Meboldt published a first report on relevant measures and their interpretation in design. In the last few years, the number of relevant publications has increased dramatically and this determines the opportunity to carry out a comprehensive review in the field. The reviewed contributions are analyzed and classified according to, among others, instruments used, the kind of stakeholders involved and the supported design research activities. The role of biometric measures with respect to traditional research methods is emphasized too. The discussed instruments can represent supports or substitutes for traditional approaches, as well as they are capable of exploring phenomena that could not be addressed hitherto. The intensity of research concerning experiments with biometric measurements is discussed too; a particular focus of the final discussion is the individuation of obstacles that prevent them from becoming commonplace in design research.

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Contrasting Divergent and Convergent Thinking by Electroencephalography and Eye Tracking

Cited by 3 publications

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Temporal Dynamics of Brain Activation During Three Concept Generation Techniques

Temporal Dynamics of Brain Activation During Three Concept Generation Techniques

Contrasting Divergent and Convergent Thinking by Electroencephalography and Eye Tracking

Review of the use of neurophysiological and biometric measures in experimental design research

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