Neuroanatomy of creative achievement

Creative Ability, Creative Ideation and Latent Classes of Creative Achievement: What Is the Role of Personality?

Silvia and colleagues (Silvia, Kaufman, & Pretz, 2009) highlighted the advantages of latent class analysis when studying creative achievement. The current study replicates and expands Silvia and colleagues’ (2009) findings on creative achievement in a sample of 656 students, of which 223 were also assessed on creative ability and ideation, as well as a broad range of personality traits. A laten...

Creative motivation: creative achievement predicts cardiac autonomic markers of effort during divergent thinking.

Executive approaches to creativity emphasize that generating creative ideas can be hard and requires mental effort. Few studies, however, have examined effort-related physiological activity during creativity tasks. Using motivational intensity theory as a framework, we examined predictors of effort-related cardiac activity during a creative challenge. A sample of 111 adults completed a divergen...

Design Achievement Model for Planning Creative and Concurrent Design Process

Planning of an upstream design process that includes creative and concurrent activities has become more important for product development in a competitive market. A significant characteristic of upstream planning is that the design process is one of knowledge creation. During this process, a designer makes progress toward a more advanced knowledge level that corresponds to a more advanced desig...

Short-Term Attentional Perseveration Associated with Real-Life Creative Achievement

There are at least two competing hypotheses of how attention interacts with creative cognition, although they are not mutually exclusive. The first hypothesis is that highly creative people are particularly flexible at switching their attention - that is, they adaptively shift focus among different attentional levels using cognitive control. The second, less common, view is that creative people...

Running Head: CREATIVITY AND PERSONALITY Creative Ability, Creative Ideation and Latent Classes of Creative Achievement: What is the Role of Personality?