Functional activity and connectivity during ideation in professional product design engineers

IF 3.2 1区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Design Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2024.101247

Gerard Campbell, Laura Hay, Sam Gilbert, Chris McTeague , Damien Coyle , Madeleine Grealy

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Abstract

In product design engineering, ideation involves producing ideas for new products that fulfil functional requirements. Ideation is associated with activity in multiple regions across the brain. However, knowledge about how these regions interact is limited. In an fMRI study of professional product design engineers (n = 30), we examined neural regions activated during ideation compared with three control conditions (rest, working memory and visuospatial processing). Using Psychophysiological Interactions analysis, we identified increased functional connectivity between five regions of interest and other areas. This included functional coupling between regions of the executive control and salience networks, and the default mode and visual networks. Connectivity between the lingual gyrus and cerebellum also suggests an interplay of visual and motor imagery during ideation.

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专业产品设计工程师在构思过程中的功能活动和连通性

在产品设计工程中，构思包括为满足功能要求的新产品提出想法。构思与大脑多个区域的活动有关。然而，有关这些区域如何相互作用的知识却很有限。在一项针对专业产品设计工程师（n = 30）的 fMRI 研究中，我们对构思过程中激活的神经区域与三种对照条件（休息、工作记忆和视觉空间处理）进行了比较。通过心理生理学交互分析，我们发现五个感兴趣区域与其他区域之间的功能连接性增强。这包括执行控制和显著性网络区域之间的功能耦合，以及默认模式和视觉网络之间的功能耦合。舌回和小脑之间的连接也表明，在意念过程中，视觉和运动意象之间存在相互作用。

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Design Studies 工程技术-工程：制造

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8.60

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20.00%

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审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy. Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.