What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS
Serena Mastria, Sergio Agnoli, G. E. Corazza, M. Grassi, Laura Franchin
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Abstract

Abstract Past research showed that apparently irrelevant information for a creative task at hand can lead to higher creative performance, especially in open-minded individuals. Through two diverse experimental procedures, the present work investigated which type of irrelevance information can inspire (i.e., increase) the creative performance during a divergent thinking (DT) task and how open-minded individuals can be inspired by this kind of information. In Experiment 1, the attentional processing of information that was either apparently relevant or irrelevant for the execution of a verbal DT task was assessed by means of an eye-tracking methodology. In Experiment 2, creative performance was explored through a verbal priming paradigm, which forcedly introduced apparently irrelevant information during the DT task. In both experiments, the level of irrelevance was operationalized in terms of semantic distance between the different kind of information. Results from both experiments highlighted the role of the semantic meaning of the irrelevant information as one of the main determinants, along with Openness, of inspiration (i.e., enhancement) of the creative performance.
是什么激励着我们?创造性思维中不相关信息语义的实验分析
过去的研究表明,与手头的创造性任务明显无关的信息可以带来更高的创造性表现,尤其是对于思想开放的人。通过两种不同的实验程序,本研究调查了哪种类型的不相关信息可以激发(即增加)在发散思维(DT)任务中的创造性表现,以及思想开放的个体如何受到这种信息的启发。在实验1中,通过眼动追踪方法评估了与言语DT任务执行明显相关或不相关的信息的注意加工。在实验2中,创造性表现是通过言语启动范式来探索的,言语启动范式在DT任务中强制引入明显不相关的信息。在这两个实验中,不相关程度都是根据不同类型信息之间的语义距离来操作的。这两个实验的结果都强调了不相关信息的语义的作用,与开放性一起,是创造性表现的灵感(即增强)的主要决定因素之一。
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ACS Applied Bio Materials
ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)
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