Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking

Autor/inn/en	Frith, Emily; Kane, Michael J.; Welhaf, Matthew S.; Christensen, Alexander P.; Silvia, Paul J.; Beaty, Roger E.
Titel	Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking
Quelle	In: Creativity Research Journal, 33 (2021) 2, S.138-157 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Frith, Emily) ORCID (Christensen, Alexander P.) ORCID (Silvia, Paul J.) ORCID (Beaty, Roger E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-0419
DOI	10.1080/10400419.2020.1855906
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Attention Control; Intelligence; Creative Thinking; Executive Function; Adults; Cognitive Ability; Predictor Variables; North Carolina (Greensboro) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Kreatives Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Prädiktor
Abstract	Increasing research efforts are focused on explaining the cognitive bases of creativity. However, it remains unclear when and how cognitive factors such as intelligence and executive function uniquely contribute to performance on creative thinking tasks. Although a relationship between fluid intelligence (Gf) and creative cognition has been well-documented, the underlying mechanism of this relation is unknown. Here, we test one possible mechanism of the Gf--creativity association -- attention control (AC) -- given AC's strong association with Gf and its theoretical relevance to creative cognition. We also examine the role of mind wandering (i.e., task-unrelated thought), a failure of AC that is potentially beneficial to creativity. Using latent variable and bifactor models, we investigated the unique contributions of AC to divergent thinking -- above the influence of "Gf" -- evaluating the specific and general contributions of AC, "Gf," and mind wandering to divergent thinking. We found that a general executive factor (i.e., of the common variance to AC, mind wandering, and Gf indicators) significantly predicted divergent thinking originality ([beta] =0.40, p <0.001) above and beyond specific Gf and mind wandering factors. Importantly, in the bifactor model, mind wandering was a nonsignificant, negative predictor of divergent thinking performance, and the residual effects of "Gf" were no longer significant, indicating that the relationship between "Gf" and divergent thinking is explained by shared variance with a common executive attention factor. This study provides novel evidence suggesting that the relationship between Gf and divergent thinking may be largely driven by the top-down control of attention. (As Provided).
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