TY - JOUR
T1 - Visualizer cognitive style enhances visual creativity
AU - Palmiero, Massimiliano
AU - Nori, Raffaella
AU - Piccardi, Laura
PY - 2016/2/26
Y1 - 2016/2/26
N2 - In the last two decades, interest towards creativity has increased significantly since it was recognized as a skill and as a cognitive reserve and is now always more frequently used in ageing training. Here, the relationships between visual creativity and Visualization-Verbalization cognitive style were investigated. Fifty college students were administered the Creative Synthesis Task aimed at measuring the ability to construct creative objects and the Visualization-Verbalization Questionnaire (VVQ) aimed at measuring the attitude to preferentially use either imagery or verbal strategy while processing information. Analyses showed that only the originality score of inventions was positively predicted by the VVQ score: higher VVQ score (indicating the preference to use imagery) predicted originality of inventions. These results showed that the visualization strategy is involved especially in the originality dimension of creative objects production. In light of neuroimaging results, the possibility that different strategies, such those that involve motor processes, affect visual creativity is also discussed.
AB - In the last two decades, interest towards creativity has increased significantly since it was recognized as a skill and as a cognitive reserve and is now always more frequently used in ageing training. Here, the relationships between visual creativity and Visualization-Verbalization cognitive style were investigated. Fifty college students were administered the Creative Synthesis Task aimed at measuring the ability to construct creative objects and the Visualization-Verbalization Questionnaire (VVQ) aimed at measuring the attitude to preferentially use either imagery or verbal strategy while processing information. Analyses showed that only the originality score of inventions was positively predicted by the VVQ score: higher VVQ score (indicating the preference to use imagery) predicted originality of inventions. These results showed that the visualization strategy is involved especially in the originality dimension of creative objects production. In light of neuroimaging results, the possibility that different strategies, such those that involve motor processes, affect visual creativity is also discussed.
KW - Motor-planning
KW - Neuroimaging
KW - Spatial and Object Imagery
KW - Verbal processing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.01.032
DO - 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.01.032
M3 - Article
C2 - 26806864
AN - SCOPUS:84957922742
VL - 615
SP - 98
EP - 101
JO - Neuroscience Letters
JF - Neuroscience Letters
SN - 0304-3940
ER -