Importance of environmental settings for the temporal dynamics of creativity

Daikoku, Tatsuya; Qi, Fang; Hamada, Tomohito; Y, Handa; Nagai, Yukie

doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100911

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“…Alpha brain wave activity increases considerably during the creative process, because the brain must inhibit old responses to generate new responses (Kraus et al, 2019). Meditation‐related brain waves induce relaxation and are related to the activity and oscillations of alpha brain waves (Daikoku et al, 2021); they can reduce the influence of the alpha waves (Diamond, 2013). The VR environment experienced by our experimental group may have been too stimulating, leading the learners to focus too much on the VR environment information and sensory experience.…”

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Effects of virtual reality on creativity performance and perceived immersion: A study of brain waves

Wang

Weng

Tsai

et al. 2022

Brit J Educational Tech

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The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of virtual reality (VR) application on creative performance and immersion, evaluated through electroencephalography brain wave data to achieve accurate and robust results. In this study, 72 middle school teachers were recruited as participants, and a non-randomized control-group pre-test-posttest design was employed. The experimental group received VR-based design instruction, and the control group received lecture-based design training. Our results revealed that VR significantly affects immersion, especially with regard to attention. Additionally, VR had a positive effect on the feasibility of the creative process, although its effects on variety and novelty were inconclusive. VR was significantly correlated with theta, beta, and gamma brain wave activity. VR also increased attention-related and meditation-related brain wave activity and desynchronized alpha waves.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Effects of virtual reality on creativity performance and perceived immersion: A study of brain waves

Wang

Weng

Tsai

et al. 2022

Brit J Educational Tech

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“…Creativity is thought to include two measurable cognitive components: divergent and convergent thinking ( Guilford et al, 1967 ). Divergent thinking refers to the process of generating creative ideas by proposing multiple solutions ( Daikoku et al, 2021 ), which can reflect latent creativity ( Runco and Acar, 2012 ). Convergent thinking is rule-based and conducive to analyzing cause-and-effect relationships between related items ( Gabora, 2010 ), which emphasizes accuracy and logic and requires deductive reasoning to find the most appropriate solution ( Jones et al, 2011 ; Lee and Therriault, 2013 ).…”

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“…Researchers have found that creative performance can be mediated by the interaction between creative processes and the work environment ( Hunter et al, 2007 ). The work environment ( García-García et al, 2019 ; Chulvi et al, 2020b ; Daikoku et al, 2021 ; Fleury et al, 2021 ) has been shown to affect creativity. Among these work environment variables, music has been considered an environmental stimulus that can affect individual creativity ( Hickey, 2012 ; Webster, 2012 ).…”

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The influence of music environment on conceptual design creativity

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Sun²,

An³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionCreativity plays an important role in design. However, there have been mixed results about whether music, as an environmental stimulus, improves design creativity performance.MethodsParticipants were 57 design major students who were randomly assigned to one of three groups, with 19 students in each group: no music, pure music, and music with intelligible semantic information (unrelated to the task) playing in the background. Each participant completed a design task (design a tool for storing painting materials), with two phases in it, one that involved idea generation (divergent thinking) and one that involved idea evaluation (convergent thinking). Performance in the two phases was rated based on six indices of creativity (fluency; flexibility; adaptability; feasibility; usefulness; novelty) and overall design creativity (ODC).ResultsThe results of one-way ANOVAs with Bonferroni correction showed that neither music environment had a significant influence on divergent thinking in idea generation nor convergent thinking in idea evaluation. However, both music environments had a significantly positive effect on novelty and ODC.DiscussionWe discuss the implications of our current results for fostering designers’ creativity performance.

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“…There are two forms of creative thinking: divergent and convergent thinking. Divergent thinking is defined as the ability to develop creative ideas by generating multiple solutions; convergent thinking is the ability for the logic of a limited number of solutions [ 2 , 3 ]. After exploring multiple possible solutions to a problem through divergent thinking, convergent thinking can be used to organize their structure and help determine the best one [ 4 , 5 ].…”

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tDCS Anodal Stimulation of the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Improves Creative Performance in Real-World Problem Solving

Guo

Luo

et al. 2023

Brain Sciences

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Brain regions associated with creativity is a focal point in research related to the field of cognitive neuroscience. Previous studies have paid more attention to the role of activation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in creativity tasks, which are mostly abstract conceptual tasks, and less attention to real-world creativity tasks. The right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is involved in functions such as visuospatial processing, which may have a positive impact on innovative solutions to real-world problems. In this study, tDCS technology was used to explore the effect of anodal stimulation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on design creativity performance in a real-word problem-solving task related to product design. The experimental task comprised three stages, of which the first two were idea generation stages based on divergent thinking using text and graphics, respectively, whereas the third was the creative evaluation stage based on convergent thinking. Thirty-six design students were recruited to partake in the experiment. They were randomly assigned into anodal stimulation and sham stimulation groups. The results showed that anodal stimulation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex produced a significant positive effect during the creative evaluation stage, promoting the usefulness of ideas (p = 0.009); thus, improving product creativity scores. However, there was no significant impact on the idea generation stage (p > 0.05), which is dominated by divergent thinking. The results suggest that activating the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with tDCS can improve people’s performance in creative activities by promoting convergent thinking rather than divergent thinking. It also provides further evidence that the right hemisphere of the brain has an advantage in solving complex problems that require the participation of visuospatial information.

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Importance of environmental settings for the temporal dynamics of creativity

Cited by 12 publications

References 83 publications

Effects of virtual reality on creativity performance and perceived immersion: A study of brain waves

Effects of virtual reality on creativity performance and perceived immersion: A study of brain waves

The influence of music environment on conceptual design creativity

tDCS Anodal Stimulation of the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Improves Creative Performance in Real-World Problem Solving

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