The dopaminergic (DA) system may be involved in creativity, however results of past studies are mixed. We attempted to clarify this putative relation by considering the mediofrontal and the nigrostriatal DA pathways, uniquely and in combination, and their contribution to two different measures of creativity--an abbreviated version of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, assessing divergent t...

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Titulo: Características psicométricas del CREA en una población de idioma inglés Resumen: Esta investigación examinó la fiabilidad y validez del CREA, una medida española de pensamiento divergente, en una población de idioma inglés. Los datos se obtuvieron durante dos años. En el primer año, las tres pruebas del CREA, los Torrance Tests de Creatividad (TTCT) Verbal y Figurativo, el inventario H...

This study aimed to investigate whether the experience of learning using a visual interactive environment through visualization impacts performance and dimensions creative potential in terms thinking. Sixteen (16) non-random non-major undergraduate computer science students programming subjects were exposed pre-experimental single group pre-posttest research design. Before after participants le...

The aim of this research was to compare the influence of the use of Information Technology (IT) on creative thinking of students of computer (software branch) and education (primary school education) in Islamic Azad University of Zanjan. The population included all the male and female students of software engineering and primary school education during the semester of 90-91, amounting to 100 pa...

Creativity has previously been linked with atypical attention, but it is not clear what aspects of attention, or what types of creativity are associated. Here we investigated specific neural markers of a very early form of attention, namely sensory gating, indexed by the P50 ERP, and how it relates to two measures of creativity: divergent thinking and real-world creative achievement. Data from ...

The present study is an investigation into the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. To this end, six female English teachers and 81 male and female advanced English learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. Data were collected through Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) and stude...

the present study aims to investigate the association between emotional-functional evelopment and formation of creative thinking among children of 4-6 years old in mashhad city. to do this, 80 children and their mothers were selected from preschools of mashhad city based on cluster sampling method.  the level of creativity among children was measured through torrance test of critical thinking (...

the aim of this research was to compare the influence of the use of information technology (it) on creative thinking of students of computer (software branch) and education (primary school education) in islamic azad university of zanjan. the population included all the male and female students of software engineering and primary school education during the semester of 90-91, amounting to 100 pa...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the effect of methylphenidate (MPH) on creative potential in a group of children with attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD). METHOD A randomized single blind crossover study was performed with 24 children with ADHD, aged between 18 and 96 (M = 10.0, SD = 1.3), evaluating each child’s creativity with and without MPH, using the To...