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Divergent thinking modulates interactions between episodic memory and schema knowledge: Controlled and spontaneous episodic retrieval processes
The ability to generate novel ideas, known as divergent thinking, depends on both semantic knowledge and episodic memory. Semantic knowledge and...
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Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking
Hand gestures play an integral role in multimodal language and communication. Even though the self-oriented functions of gestures, such as activating...
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Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience
Divergent thinking is the ability to produce numerous and diverse responses to questions or tasks, and it is used as a predictor of creative...
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Best humans still outperform artificial intelligence in a creative divergent thinking task
Creativity has traditionally been considered an ability exclusive to human beings. However, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has...
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The current state of artificial intelligence generative language models is more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks
The emergence of publicly accessible artificial intelligence (AI) large language models such as ChatGPT has given rise to global conversations on the...
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The features of divergent thinking development in the framework of distance teaching students of cultural studies
The development of education directly refers to the improvement of digital technologies that contribute to new opportunities in the learning process....
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Divergent thinking in Italian elementary school children: the key role of probabilistic reasoning style
Divergent thinking is widely recognised as an individual creative potential and an essential factor in fostering creativity since the early stages of...
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Divergent thinking and the core executive functions: a state-of-the-art review
The study of the relationships between divergent thinking and the core executive functions is long standing. However, the literature on this topic is...
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Executive functioning and divergent thinking predict creative problem-solving in young adults and elderlies
The role of executive functioning in creative thinking is under debate. Some authors suggested that increased inhibitory control, a component of...
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Motor restrictions impair divergent thinking during walking and during sitting
Creativity, specifically divergent thinking, has been shown to benefit from unrestrained walking. Despite these findings, it is not clear if it is...
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Dopamine supports idea originality: the role of spontaneous eye blink rate on divergent thinking
The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a crucial role in human creative behaviour. Specifically, striatal dopamine seems to be associated with specific...
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Creative actions in team sports are rooted in motor skills rather than in a divergent thinking ability
Creative actions are considered decisive in team sports. In most empirical studies on the topic so far, creativity has been understood as a player’s...
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Subcortical structures and visual divergent thinking: a resting-state functional MRI analysis
An increasing number of studies have found that a few, specific subcortical regions are involved in creative visual divergent thinking. In addition,...
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Design thinking teams and team innovation performance
Design thinking (DT) is hailed as a cornerstone of innovation. It is based on teamwork, yet we know little about how the DT team operates and...
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Creative thinking and cognitive estimation in Parkinson’s disease
BackgroundPatients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have been reported to exhibit unusual bouts of creativity (e.g., painting, writing), in particular...
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Methylphenidate undermines or enhances divergent creativity depending on baseline dopamine synthesis capacity
Catecholamine-enhancing psychostimulants, such as methylphenidate have long been argued to undermine creative thinking. However, prior evidence for...
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Detection of nodding of interlocutors using a chair-shaped device and investigating relationship between a divergent thinking task and amount of nodding
We evaluate a group’s intellectual productivity in terms of its nodding. We first propose a method that detects nodding using a chair-shaped sensing...
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Event Related Potentials’ Characteristics in the Different Models of Verbal Creative Thinking
AbstractThe comparative study of three different models of creative thinking in unified event-related (ERP) paradigm is presented. The subjects...
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Exploring the impact of acute physical activity on creative thinking: a comprehensive narrative review with a focus on activity type and intensity
Recent studies have increasingly focused on the cognitive benefits of acute physical activity, particularly in enhancing creative thinking. Despite...
