Creativity as Flexible Cognitive Control

By Darya L. Zabelina, Michael D. Robinson. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought (2012, unknown): “…idea generation (Gilhooly, Fioratou, Anthony, & Wynn, 2007; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011a), exerting control over attention and thought (Vartanian, 2009; Zabelina & Robinson, 2010; Zabelina, Robinson, Council, & Bresin, in press), making decisions and refining initial ideas (Finke, Ward, & Smith,…”
Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics (2015, background): “Although memory retrieval appears to have an important role in idea generation, cognitive control systems can also be recruited to evaluate and modify candidate ideas to meet specific goals, in line with behavioural [53–59] and neuroimaging [37,60–64] evidence showing consistent involvement of execu”
How Dual-Identity Processes Foster Creativity (2014, background): “More recently, creativity was linked to a decreased Stroop effect following a rule switch, suggesting that creative individuals have higher sensitivity to contextual demands and can more easily switch to rules that are appropriate in a given context (Zabelina & Robinson, 2010).”
Verbal fluency and creativity: General and specific contributions of broad retrieval ability (Gr) factors to divergent thinking (2013, unknown): “…creative quality, which is consistent with the emerging literature on how executive abilities influence creative thought (Beaty & Silvia, 2012, 2013; Benedek, Franz, et al., 2012; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011; Silvia & Beaty, 2012; Zabelina & Robinson, 2010; Zabelina, Robinson, Council, & Bresin, 2012).”
The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory (2014, background): “…Nijstad et al., 2010), a means of aiding shifting between them could take the form of improving a person’s ability to flexibly modulate cognitive control as there is some evidence that creative people are better able to modulate cognitive control in response to context (Zabelina & Robinson, 2010).”
Assessing creativity with self-report scales: A review and empirical evaluation. (2012, background): “People with higher CAQ scores displayed more flexible cognitive control in a Stroop paradigm (Zabelina & Robinson, 2010) and had higher IQ scores ( r = .34) and cumulative grade point averages ( r = .18; Mar, DeYoung, Higgins, & Peterson, 2006).”
Ready, Set, Create: What Instructing People to "Be Creative" Reveals About the Meaning and Mechanisms of Divergent Thinking (2014, background): “A third body of work uses experimental (e.g., Zabelina & Robinson, 2010) and biological (e.g., Benedek, Bergner, Könen, Fink, & Neubauer, 2011) paradigms to illuminate aspects of cognitive control that influence creative thought.”
Building creative thinking in the classroom: From research to practice (2013, background): “In addition to the argument that executive functions are important for creativity (Diamond, 2006), creative individuals tend to exhibit more flexible cognitive control, one aspect of executive function (Zabelina & Robinson, 2010).”
Creativity and Discovery as Blind Variation: Campbell's (1960) BVSR Model after the Half-Century Mark (2011, result): “…it has long been known that creativity is positively associated with defocused attention (Eysenck, 1995; Kasof, 1997; Mendelsohn, 1976; cf. Zabelina & Robinson, 2010), and this correlation has received additional support from more recent research on the relation between creativity and…”
Creativity and the Stroop interference effect (2014, methodology): “Zabelina and Robinson (2010) used a color-word Stroop task in order to assess cognitive control and its flexibility.”
Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks. (2012, background): “…Könen, Fink, & Neubauer, 2011; De Dreu, Nijstad, Bass, Wolsink, & Roskes, 2012; Fink et al., 2009; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011a; Vartanian, 2009; Zabelina & Robinson, 2010; Zabelina, Robinson, Council, & Bresin, 2012), judging and refining initial ideas ( Finke, Ward, & Smith, 1992; Gabora,…”