Motor creativity : the roles of attention breadth and working memory in a divergent doing task
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Motorische Kreativität : die Rolle der Aufmerksamkeitsbreite und des Arbeitsgedächtnisses in einer divergenten Aufgabe |
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Autor: | Moraru, Alexander; Memmert, Daniel; van der Kamp, John |
Erschienen in: | Journal of cognitive psychology |
Veröffentlicht: | 28 (2016), 7, S. 856-867, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 2044-5911, 1464-0635 |
DOI: | 10.1080/20445911.2016.1201084 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201607004741 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
We evaluated the dual-pathway model to creativity in a motor context. The model describes separate flexibility and persistence pathways that are affected differently by breadth of attention and working memory. Motor creativity was tested using a divergent doing task. In Experiment 1 participants performed the divergent doing task after attention was broadened, narrowed or not manipulated. In Experiment 2, the divergent doing task was performed with a low or high working memory load. We found that a broad attention increased flexibility but not persistence. Also originality was unaffected. Taxing working memory did not affect persistence, flexibility or originality. The results provide partial support for the dual-pathway model in motor creativity. Discusion focusses on increased demands for the appropriatness of a solution in divergent doing relative to divergent thinking and to degree to which this implies a more general shortcoming of the dual-pathway model.