ReviewCognitive processing2022
Divergent thinking and the core executive functions: a state-of-the-art review.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Investigating age-related differences in semantic control mechanisms involved in creative cognition.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- The impact of chronic heroin addiction on creative cognition: an EEG study based on divergent thinking.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia as a model for understanding the cognitive and cerebral determinants of verbal creativity.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2025Article
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- Emotion Induction Modulates Neural Dynamics Related to the Originality of Ideational Creativity.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- The Role of Well-Being, Divergent Thinking, and Cognitive Reserve in Different Socio-Cultural Contexts.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Divergent thinking in groups during cold-water immersion is impaired by cold stress not the cold shock response.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Employing Verbal Divergent Thinking to Mitigate Cognitive Decline: Current State of Research and Reasons to Support Its Use.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Investigating the relationship between stereotyping and creativity during marketing campaigns in marketeers and audiences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Divergent thinking as a predictor of life skills in patients with schizophrenia: Evidence from the modified Tinkertoy Test.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Article
- Investigating the neural substrate variations between easy and challenging creative association tasks during product design within an fMRI scanner.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2024Article
- Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Divergent thinking modulates interactions between episodic memory and schema knowledge: Controlled and spontaneous episodic retrieval processes.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
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Abstract
The study of the relationships between divergent thinking and the core executive functions is long standing. However, the literature on this topic is not conclusive. The present review was aimed to clarify the extent to which divergent thinking is related to the core executive functions, namely inhibition, working memory and cognitive flexibility. The main findings showed that divergent thinking is supported by inhibition in terms of flexible attention changes. Working memory appears to play a key role in enabling semantic associations when the focus of attention is narrowed. Then, although cognitive flexibility is a key element of divergent thinking, only a few studies independently investigated its contribution. Taken together, the results suggest that divergent thinking relies on the ability to switch between different mechanisms according to the individual's ability and task demands. Future research directions are also discussed.
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