Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking

Frith, Emily; Kane, Michael J.; Welhaf, Matthew S.; Christensen, Alexander P.; Silvia, Paul J.; Beaty, Roger E.

doi:10.1080/10400419.2020.1855906

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“…The study showed that the effect of gf on DT was mediated by the switching ability, supporting the premise that executive abilities play a substantial role in DT performance. Similarly, Frith et al (2021b) recently found considerable overlap between DT and gf at the level of latent abilities, which was, however, explained by executive attention.…”

Section: On the Role Of Cognitive Control In Creative Thinking And Th...mentioning

confidence: 87%

“…More importantly, SEM allowed quantifying individual differences (as factor scores) in order to investigate brain-behavior associations on that basis, instead of simple task-average scores. Even if underpowered, the SEM-derived factor scores provide descriptively better indicators for abilities previously reported in the literature at the latent level (Benedek et al 2014;Frith et al 2021b).…”

Section: Relationship Between Creative Thinking Intelligence and Inhi...mentioning

confidence: 87%

“…To conclude, there is considerable empirical evidence showing that certain executive functions (inhibition, updating, and executive attention) are indeed critical to creative thinking (Diamond 2013;Frith et al 2021b) and that they also seem to play an explanatory role in the creative thinking-intelligence relationship. The aforementioned role of cognitive control in DT, demonstrated at the behavioral level, delivers an explanation for the involvement of extensive brain networks, such as the DMN and ECN, and local PFC in both cognitive control and DT.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the associations with cognitive control in the behavioral model failed to reach significance, potentially not only because of the sample size constraints but also because of the narrow assessment procedure for behavioral inhibition, which was measured with only one task in our study. Differently, Benedek et al (2014) and Frith et al (2021b) used multiple task paradigms to measure inhibition/switching ability.…”

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Exploring Neural Signal Complexity as a Potential Link between Creative Thinking, Intelligence, and Cognitive Control

Kaur

Weiss²,

Zhou

et al. 2021

J. Intell.

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Functional connectivity studies have demonstrated that creative thinking builds upon an interplay of multiple neural networks involving the cognitive control system. Theoretically, cognitive control has generally been discussed as the common basis underlying the positive relationship between creative thinking and intelligence. However, the literature still lacks a detailed investigation of the association patterns between cognitive control, the factors of creative thinking as measured by divergent thinking (DT) tasks, i.e., fluency and originality, and intelligence, both fluid and crystallized. In the present study, we explored these relationships at the behavioral and the neural level, based on N = 77 young adults. We focused on brain-signal complexity (BSC), parameterized by multi-scale entropy (MSE), as measured during a verbal DT and a cognitive control task. We demonstrated that MSE is a sensitive neural indicator of originality as well as inhibition. Then, we explore the relationships between MSE and factor scores indicating DT and intelligence. In a series of across-scalp analyses, we show that the overall MSE measured during a DT task, as well as MSE measured in cognitive control states, are associated with fluency and originality at specific scalp locations, but not with fluid and crystallized intelligence. The present explorative study broadens our understanding of the relationship between creative thinking, intelligence, and cognitive control from the perspective of BSC and has the potential to inspire future BSC-related theories of creative thinking.

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Section: On the Role Of Cognitive Control In Creative Thinking And Th...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring Neural Signal Complexity as a Potential Link between Creative Thinking, Intelligence, and Cognitive Control

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“…These factor loadings can also be compared to loadings onto a general factor. Although researchers have yet to use this approach to test for the discriminant validity of creative ability tests, some recent works have used bifactor modeling to illustrate the effects of secondlevel cognitive abilities, like verbal fluency (Silvia et al, 2013), or a general factor of executive attention (Frith et al, 2021) on DT task performance.…”

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Developmental Histories Facilitating the Emergence of Creative Scientific Expertise: The Role of Developed Cognitive Talents, Education, and Social and Cultural Contexts

Wai

Brown

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Understanding how individual and contextual factors collectively contribute to the developmental histories that facilitate the emergence of creative expertise in science is improved by considering the contribution of the broad structure of developed cognitive abilities to creativity, prospective research on the high achieving or gifted students who may choose careers in and end up as creative scientists later in life, as well as retrospective studies of established creative scientists themselves and what their educational histories reveal. We first review and elaborate on these connections as documented in research which explore the development of talent, including cognitive mechanisms that include math and spatial reasoning and science related educational opportunities. We propose a research thought experiment that utilizes the multi-trait, multi-method matrix, and bifactor modeling to help understand the true overlap between measurement structures of cognitive and creative aptitudes. Then we explore the social and cultural contexts that may facilitate and/or hinder creative solutions in science through the lens of how these ecosystems influence talent development for gifted students and also the production of elite scientists. Based on this review, some policies will be suggested that may enhance the development of scientific creativity and broader societal innovation and expand the pipeline to include and fully develop the talents of disadvantaged students and provide nurturing environments to improve the likelihood of the emergence of scientific creative expertise.

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Creativity in Older Adults: Elucidating the Interactions between Cognitive Functions Underlying Creativity and the Role of Demographic Variables

Alcock,

Ferreira‐Correia,

Cockcroft

2023

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Creativity involves generating novel and valuable ideas. While the importance of creative thinking is widely acknowledged, its cognitive basis is poorly understood, particularly in older adults. This study aimed to develop and test an explanatory model of creative thinking to elucidate its underlying cognitive functions in an elderly sample. The role of demographic variables, including age, multilingualism, socioeconomic status (SES), level of education, and gender in creative thinking was also investigated. One hundred and twenty‐five participants aged 65 years and above‐completed measures of divergent, convergent and associative thinking, as well as task‐switching, inhibition and fluid intelligence. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyzed the relationships between these cognitive functions, and group differences assessed whether there were significant differences in the cognitive measures based on the demographic variables. Creative thinking appeared to entail the cooperation between divergent and convergent thinking, which both rely on associative thinking, suggesting an associative basis of creative thinking. Creative thinking involved fluid intelligence and task‐switching, but not inhibition, recasting it as a higher‐order function. This study supports the dual‐process account of creative thinking by demonstrating an associative basis and the role of executive functions. Differences among education and SES groups occurred for most cognitive functions analyzed. These findings inform prevailing theoretical frameworks of creative thinking.

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Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking

Cited by 56 publications

References 132 publications

Exploring Neural Signal Complexity as a Potential Link between Creative Thinking, Intelligence, and Cognitive Control

Exploring Neural Signal Complexity as a Potential Link between Creative Thinking, Intelligence, and Cognitive Control

Developmental Histories Facilitating the Emergence of Creative Scientific Expertise: The Role of Developed Cognitive Talents, Education, and Social and Cultural Contexts

Creativity in Older Adults: Elucidating the Interactions between Cognitive Functions Underlying Creativity and the Role of Demographic Variables

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