Creative potential, attention, and speed of information processing

By Oshin Vartanian, C. Martindale, Jonna Kwiatkowski. 2007

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The Neuropsychological Connection Between Creativity and Meditation (2009, background): “Martindale ( 1999 ) suggested that attention in creatives is a variable state that becomes defocused, allowing irrelevant information to combine when solving ill-defined problems, and focused when verifying ideas (see also Vartanian, Martindale, & Kwiatkowski, 2007 ).”
The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory (2014, background): “The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory”
Creativity and the Stroop interference effect (2014, background): “…reaction times on simple tasks not involving interference, but slower reaction times on tasks requiring the inhibition of interfering information than less creative persons (Dorfman et al., 2008; Vartanian et al., 2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.05.009 0191-8869/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd.”
Evaluative and generative modes of thought during the creative process (2012, background): “…et al., 2001; Shulman and Fiez, 1997), it may facilitate an associative mode of processing that supports the generation of novel ideas (Dorfman et al., 2008; Howard-Jones and Murray, 2003; Vartanian et al., 2007), thereby contributing to creative generation more than to creative evaluation.”