Divergent thinking: strategies and executive involvement in generating novel uses for familiar objects.

By Kenneth Gilhooly, E. Fioratou, Susan Anthony, V. Wynn. British Journal of Psychology, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Intelligence and Creativity Are Pretty Similar After All (2015, background): “As a result, the renewed emphasis on intelligence is congenial to models that view creative thought in terms of problem solving, judgment, and decision making (e.g., Finke et al. 1992; Gilhooly et al. 2007; Sternberg and Lubart 1991).”
Verbal fluency and creativity: General and specific contributions of broad retrieval ability (Gr) factors to divergent thinking (2013, background): “(Gilhooly et al., 2007), can thus positively predict quality but negatively”
The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory (2014, methodology): “General chronological information can be gained through methods such as think-aloud protocols (e.g., Gilhooly et al., 2007; Khandwalla, 1993).”
Ready, Set, Create: What Instructing People to "Be Creative" Reveals About the Meaning and Mechanisms of Divergent Thinking (2014, background): “An example of this in action comes from a study (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011a, Study 2) that manipulated exposure to a good strategy (object disassembly; Gilhooly et al., 2007).”
Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics (2015, background): “It has also been reported that healthy young adults sometimes draw on episodic memories when performing the alternate uses divergent thinking task mentioned in the main text, although retrieval of episodic memories occurred mainly during the initial stage of task performance [70].”
Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought (2012, unknown): “People with brief response times appeared to use a memorybased retrieval strategy (Gilhooly et al., 2007), in which they searched memory for an appropriate metaphor and then wrote it.”
How semantic memory structure and intelligence contribute to creative thought: a network science approach (2017, methodology): “Previous studies found that people generate 12–20 responses in one minute (Gilhooly et al., 2007; Silvia et al., 2013), so the observed average response fluency of 26 seems reasonable for two-minute tasks.”
Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks. (2012, background): “A humorous example comes from the verbal reports obtained by Gilhooly et al. (2007).”