Enhancing creativity by training metacognitive skills in mental imagery

May, Jon; Redding, Emma; Whatley, Sarah; Łucznik, Klara; Clements, Lucie; Weber, Rebecca; Sikorski, John; Reed, Sara

doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2020.100739

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“…Conscientiousness is also negatively related to creativity (Jirásek and Sudzina, 2020). Creativity is linked to the ability of mental imagery (May et al, 2020), and possibly a lack of creativity in conscientious personalities might also consequence their inferior MI-BCI performance. The data was explored further to reveal why this trait only affected performance in the first run.…”

Section: Personality Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vividness of Visual Imagery and Personality Impact Motor-Imagery Brain Computer Interfaces

Leeuwis

Paas

Alimardani

2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are communication bridges between a human brain and external world, enabling humans to interact with their environment without muscle intervention. Their functionality, therefore, depends on both the BCI system and the cognitive capacities of the user. Motor-imagery BCIs (MI-BCI) rely on the users’ mental imagination of body movements. However, not all users have the ability to sufficiently modulate their brain activity for control of a MI-BCI; a problem known as BCI illiteracy or inefficiency. The underlying mechanism of this phenomenon and the cause of such difference among users is yet not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the impact of several cognitive and psychological measures on MI-BCI performance. Fifty-five novice BCI-users participated in a left- versus right-hand motor imagery task. In addition to their BCI classification error rate and demographics, psychological measures including personality factors, affinity for technology, and motivation during the experiment, as well as cognitive measures including visuospatial memory and spatial ability and Vividness of Visual Imagery were collected. Factors that were found to have a significant impact on MI-BCI performance were Vividness of Visual Imagery, and the personality factors of orderliness and autonomy. These findings shed light on individual traits that lead to difficulty in BCI operation and hence can help with early prediction of inefficiency among users to optimize training for them.

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Section: Personality Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vividness of Visual Imagery and Personality Impact Motor-Imagery Brain Computer Interfaces

Leeuwis

Paas

Alimardani

2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Knowing how to focus specifically on details and relate them to the globality of information in a coherent whole will allow the development of important metacognitive aspects of problem solving in students (Akben, 2020). This conscious understanding is a necessary step for allowing students to propose creative, innovative solutions (May et al, 2020;Valgeirsdóttir & Onarheim, 2017).…”

Section: The Importance Of Learning To Regulate Local and Global Explorationmentioning

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Interactivity and materiality matter in creativity: educational robotics for the assessment of divergent thinking

Leroy

Roméro

Cassone

2021

Interactive Learning Environments

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Idea generation in interactive learning environments requires the consideration of the interactivity and materiality aspects of creativity. In educational robotics, idea generation is mediated through a technological object in a process allowing us to observe the three main components of divergent thinking: fluency, flexibility, and originality. Nevertheless, divergent thinking assessment has been mainly evaluated in the last decades through semantic idea generation tasks such the Alternative Uses Test (AUT), asking participants to write different uses for familiar objects. In our study, we aimed to analyze differences in the three divergent thinking components (fluency, flexibility, and originality) through the AUT as a semantic task and through an educational robotic task that engaged the participants in building their ideas interactively. Results show that the creative components are strongly correlated within but not between the two tasks, leading us to consider the differences in the creative processes engaged when generating ideas through building with robotic objects. The role of affordances in idea generation through educational robotics is discussed as an important difference to consider in the evaluation of creativity in interactive learning environments.

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“…As shown in Figure 7, the latest research trends in the area of college students' innovativeness can be categorized into two major directions. The first is training; creativity can be improved by developing metacognitive skills by imagery training to generate new ideas and cultivate divergent thinking (May et al, 2020). The innovative capabilities of college students are not inborn and unchangeable but can be improved by training and practices that integrate active participation and clear guidance for individuals and teams (Tran, Kudrowitz, & Koutstaal, 2020).…”

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Students’ innovativeness and higher education for sustainable development: A bibliometric approach

Pu²

2023

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Innovativeness plays a decisive role in the progress of society, the sustainable development of nations, and the success of individuals in the era of information technology and knowledge economy, especially because the world is now confronted with major challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, social inequality and resource exhaustion that have no ready solutions. As cradles for talent, higher education institutions attach great importance to promoting the innovative capabilities of their students. This study aims to introduce the existing studies on students’ innovativeness in institutions of higher learning for sustainable development. This study applies a bibliometric analysis by conducting collaboration, co-citation, co-reference, and co-occurrence analysis on university students’ innovativeness toward sustainable development. A total of 1,531 academic publications have been collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database from 2011 to 2021 and further analyzed. The major researchers and publications, productive countries or regions, collaborative institutions, research hotspots, and trends related to the innovativeness of college students are identified in this study. By adopting Co-occurrence (COOC) and VOSviewer to analyze and visualize the data, this research reveals that college students’ innovation capability continues to be an emerging research issue. Training, entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial intention are identified as the gaps for further studies. The results of this study suggest that academia in higher education institutions and government agencies are strongly encouraged to enhance the innovativeness of college students to tackle the unsustainable issues haunting society today.

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Enhancing creativity by training metacognitive skills in mental imagery

Cited by 19 publications

References 15 publications

Vividness of Visual Imagery and Personality Impact Motor-Imagery Brain Computer Interfaces

Vividness of Visual Imagery and Personality Impact Motor-Imagery Brain Computer Interfaces

Interactivity and materiality matter in creativity: educational robotics for the assessment of divergent thinking

Students’ innovativeness and higher education for sustainable development: A bibliometric approach

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