Associative theories of creativity argue that creative cognition involves the abilities to
generate remote associations and make useful connections between unrelated concepts in …

Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of
responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual …

Creativity, the ability to generate original and valuable products, has long been linked to
semantic retrieval processes. The associative theory of creativity posits flexible retrieval …

Although memory is known to play a key role in creativity, previous studies have not isolated
the critical component processes and networks. We asked participants to generate links …

Creativity is critical to economic growth and societal progress. However, assessing creativity
using objective approaches remains a challenge. To address this, we employ three …

Associative thinking plays a major role in creativity, as it involves the ability to link distant
concepts. Yet, the neural mechanisms allowing to combine distant associates in creative …

Novelty and appropriateness are two fundamental components of creativity. However, the
way in which novelty and appropriateness are separated at behavioral and neural levels …

Evidence from fMRI research indicates that individual creative thinking ability–defined as
performance on divergent thinking tasks, subjectively assessed by human raters–can be …

The study investigated the effects of examples' timing and quality on divergent thinking (DT).
In study 1, participants received two novel or common examples in the early or late stage of …

 Abstract—Considering that teachers can not directly supervise or control students' real
activities during online learning, students need to manage their learning without the …