Article history: Received 17 March 2015 Received in revised form 19 July 2016 Accepted 27 July 2016 Available online xxxx We examined the relationship betweenmindwandering,metacognition and creativity in 116 university and 117 vocational Chilean students. They took a test of divergent thinking, a test of creative problem solving and a fluid intelligence test. Additionally, they answeredmindwand...

INTRODUCTION This study examines the notion of enhanced creative thinking in schizophrenia and determines the mediating role of executive dysfunction and symptom severity in this relationship. METHOD Patients with chronic schizophrenia (n=28) were assessed on varied facets of creative cognition and standard tests of executive control relative to matched healthy control participants (n=18). ...

It is certainly true, as Silvia et al. (2008) write, that “after half a century of research, the evidence for global creative ability ought to be better” (p. 68). The authors believe—incorrectly, I think— that the reason that divergent thinking tests have not done a better job can be found in the various scoring systems that have been used when assessing divergent thinking ability. I have prese...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The volume of cortical tissue devoted to a function often influences the quality of a person's ability to perform that function. Up to now only white matter correlates of creativity have been reported, and we wanted to learn if the creative visuospatial performance on the figural Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is associated with measurements of cerebral gray ...

In this paper we firstly determined how creative problem solving (CPS) is incubated and developed in programming. We adopted methods that included thinking aloud, observation and interviews to compare and analyze the data collected from experts and novices while they were engaged in programming task s to complete a sorting process using Visual BASIC. The purpose of this study was threefold: 1) ...

This study aimed to examine an open-ended problem-solving assessment tool that can be used measure the profile of students’ mathematical creativity based on type creativity. The consists sheets and interview guidelines students' One hundred five students were asked solve problems. From each group, one student was selected interviewed with aim obtaining a more detailed explanation these types. t...

Several lines of evidence support that dopaminergic neurotransmission plays a role in creative thought and behavior. Here, we investigated the relationship between creative ability and dopamine D2 receptor expression in healthy individuals, with a focus on regions where aberrations in dopaminergic function have previously been associated with psychotic symptoms and a genetic liability to schizo...

In school settings, students are typically evaluated using group achievement tests, IQ scales, and college entrance exams that focus more on rote-verbal skills (e.g., vocabulary, mathematical facts) than on higher level executive functions (e.g., abstract thinking, problem solving). However, recent neuropsychological findings suggest that rote-knowledge skills and executive functions are diverg...