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Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking
Creativity Research Journal ( IF 2.032 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 , DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2020.1855906
Emily Frith 1, 2 , Michael J. Kane 3 , Matthew S. Welhaf 3 , Alexander P. Christensen 4 , Paul J. Silvia 3 , Roger E. Beaty 2
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ABSTRACT

Increasing research efforts are focused on explaining the cognitive bases of creativity. However, it remains unclear when and how cognitive factors such as intelligence and executive function uniquely contribute to performance on creative thinking tasks. Although a relationship between fluid intelligence (Gf) and creative cognition has been well-documented, the underlying mechanism of this relation is unknown. Here, we test one possible mechanism of the Gf–creativity association – attention control (AC) – given AC’s strong association with Gf and its theoretical relevance to creative cognition. We also examine the role of mind wandering (i.e., task-unrelated thought), a failure of AC that is potentially beneficial to creativity. Using latent variable and bifactor models, we investigated the unique contributions of AC to divergent thinking – above the influence of Gf – evaluating the specific and general contributions of AC, Gf, and mind wandering to divergent thinking. We found that a general executive factor (i.e., of the common variance to AC, mind wandering, and Gf indicators) significantly predicted divergent thinking originality (β =.40, p <.001) above and beyond specific Gf and mind wandering factors. Importantly, in the bifactor model, mind wandering was a nonsignificant, negative predictor of divergent thinking performance, and the residual effects of Gf were no longer significant, indicating that the relationship between Gf and divergent thinking is explained by shared variance with a common executive attention factor. This study provides novel evidence suggesting that the relationship between Gf and divergent thinking may be largely driven by the top-down control of attention.



中文翻译:

保持控制的创造力:注意力控制和流体智能对发散思维的贡献

摘要

越来越多的研究工作集中于解释创造力的认知基础。但是,尚不清楚何时以及如何将诸如智力和执行功能之类的认知因素独特地促进创造性思维任务的表现。虽然流体智力之间有关系(Gf)和创造性认知已得到充分证明,这种关系的潜在机制尚不清楚。在这里,鉴于AC与Gf的强烈关联及其与创造性认知的理论关联性,我们测试了Gf-创造力关联-注意控制(AC)的一种可能机制。我们还研究了思维游荡(即与任务无关的思想)的作用,这是交流的失败,对创造力有潜在的好处。使用潜变量和模型bifactor,我们研究交流,以发散性思维的独特贡献-上面的影响GF -评估具体和交流,一般捐款GF,和心灵漂泊到发散性思维。我们发现,一般的执行因素(即AC的共同差异,思维游荡和Gf指标)显着预测了超出特定Gf和思维游荡因素之外的发散性思维独创性(β  = .40,p <.001)。重要的是,在双因素模型中,思维游荡是发散性思维表现的无意义的负面预测因子,并且Gf的剩余影响不再显着,表明Gf和发散性思维之间的关系由共同的方差和共同的执行者关注来解释。因素。这项研究提供了新的证据,表明Gf和发散性思维之间的关系可能在很大程度上由注意力的自上而下控制。

更新日期:2021-01-07
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