Do creative people use shorter associative pathways

By Eva C. Rossmann, Andreas Fink. 2010

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Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement. (2016, background): “Thus, creative individuals may have more associative links in their network and can connect associative relations faster than less creative individuals (Rossmann & Fink, 2010).”
Revisiting the Multicultural Experience–Creativity Link (2013, background): “…of forging broader associative links among given stimuli in order to arrive at the best solution (Dewhurst, Thorley, Hammond, & Ormerod, 2011; Rossman & Fink, 2010), successfully coming up with the solution also requires individuals to overcome cognitive fixedness and to gain the insight of…”
The cognitive underpinnings of creative thought: A latent variable analysis exploring the roles of intelligence and working memory in three creative thinking processes (2013, background): “In other words, more creative individuals judged the associative distance between two unrelated words to be smaller than less creative individuals (Rossman & Fink, 2010).”
How semantic memory structure and intelligence contribute to creative thought: a network science approach (2017, background): “Lower path lengths between concepts (ASPL) may facilitate a faster search for remote semantic concepts relevant for creative thought (Kenett & Austerweil, 2016; Rossman & Fink, 2010).”