Creative and analytic thinkers differ in their use of attentional resources

By Pamela I. Ansburg, K. G. Hill. 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Taking the U.S. Patent Office Criteria Seriously: A Quantitative Three-Criterion Creativity Definition and Its Implications (2012, background): “Also telling is the tendency for creativity to be linked with defocused attention, reduced latent inhibition, or some comparable relaxing of the cognitive filters (Ansburg & Hill, 2003; Eysenck, 1995; Mendelsohn, 1976; Peterson & Carson, 2000; Peterson, Smith, & Carson, 2002).”
Stimulating Creativity: Modulation of Convergent and Divergent Thinking by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) (2015, background): “…(Behrmann, Geng, & Shomstein, 2004) and attention was found to play a prominent role in problem-solving behavior in the remote association task (Ansburg & Hill, 2003) and in attention deployment (Runco, 2004), one can speculate that stimulating this region might affect attentional processes in…”
Toward a Theory of Change Readiness (2008, background): “Ansburg and Hill (2003) suggested that creative problem solving similarly depends on an individual’s capacity to use peripherally presented cues effectively.”
The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory (2014, background): “…is evidence that creative individuals are better able to alter this focus of attention in response to task demands by modulating cognitive inhibition (Ansburg & Hill, 2003; Bristol & Viskontas, 2006; Dorfman, Martindale, Gassimova, & Vartanian, 2008; Gabora, 2000, 2003; Vartanian et al., 2007).”
A Brain Mechanism for Facilitation of Insight by Positive Affect (2009, unknown): “This modulation may promote a more global (Gasper & Clore, 2002) or diffuse focus of attention, which has previously been linked to improved insight or creative problem solving (Rowe et al., 2007; Ansburg & Hill, 2003).”
Paying Attention to Mindfulness and Its Effects on Task Performance in the Workplace (2011, background): “…to a relatively large number of external and internal phenomena, which suggests that, with regard to its attentional breadth—or the number and range of stimuli attended to during a given period of time (Ansburg & Hill, 2003; Kasof, 1997; Memmert, 2007)—mindfulness may be considered quite wide.”
Working Memory Capacity, Attentional Focus, and Problem Solving (2012, background): “And performance on the RAT has been found to correlate with the ability take advantage of peripherally presented cues (Ansburg & Hill, 2003).”
FEATURED ARTICLE: The Creative Process in Picasso's Guernica Sketches: Monotonic Improvements versus Nonmonotonic Variants (2007, unknown): “Creative individuals also score lower on indicators of negative priming and latent inhibition, meaning that they are less prone to filter out supposedly extraneous information (Ansberg & Hill, 2003; Carson, Peterson, & Higgins, 2003; Eysenck, 1993; Peterson & Carson, 2000).”
The Right Brain Implicit Self Lies at the Core of Psychoanalysis (2011, background): “Summarizing this body of studies Ansburg and Hill (2003) asserted that highly creative (as opposed to analytic) thinkers are more likely to produce nonconsciously primed solutions, gather information using diffuse instead of focused attentional processes that occur beneath awareness, sample a wider ”
Creativity and Discovery as Blind Variation: Campbell's (1960) BVSR Model after the Half-Century Mark (2011, background): “This attentional proclivity departs diametrically from what is displayed by domain experts who are very proficient at ignoring information deemed irrelevant to the problem at hand (see also Ansburg & Hill, 2003).”