ArticleMemory (Hove, England)2021
Divergent thinking and constructing future events: dissociating old from new ideas.
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- Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis.Creativity research journal · 2025Article
- Episodic recombination and the role of time in mental travel.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Constructive Memory and Conscious Experience.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- Divergent thinking modulates interactions between episodic memory and schema knowledge: Controlled and spontaneous episodic retrieval processes.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- The Association between Working Memory and Divergent Thinking: The Moderating Role of Formal Musical Background.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Stories of Hope: Young People's Personal Narratives About ADHD Put Into Context of Positive Aspects.Qualitative health research · 2024Article
- Creativity at rest: Exploring functional network connectivity of creative experts.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Mnemicity versus temporality: Distinguishing between components of episodic representations.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2022Article
- A new method for training creativity: narrative as an alternative to divergent thinking.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Divergent thinking (the ability to generate creative ideas by combining diverse types of information) has been previously linked to the ability to imagine novel and specific future autobiographical events. Here, we examined whether divergent thinking is differentially associated with the ability to construct novel imagined future events and recast future events (i.e., actual past events recast as future events) as opposed to recalled past events. We also examined whether different types of creative ideas (i.e., old ideas from memory or new ideas from imagination) underlie the linkage between divergent thinking and various autobiographical events. Divergent thinking ability was measured using the Alternate Uses Task (AUT). In Experiment 1, the amount of episodic details for both novel and recast future events was associated with divergent thinking (AUT scores), and this relationship was significant with AUT scores for new creative ideas but not old creative ideas. There was no significant relationship between divergent thinking and the amount of episodic detail for recalled past events. We extended these findings in Experiment 2 to a different test of divergent thinking, the Consequences Task. These results demonstrate that individual differences in divergent thinking are associated with the capacity to both imagine and recast future events.
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