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Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Rotation of Interactive Virtual Objects with Eye-Tracking Data
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Creativity, visualization abilities, and visual cognitive style
Maria Kozhevnikov1, Michael Kozhevnikov, Chen Jiao Yu
1Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore. mkozhevn@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Background:
Despite the recent evidence for a multi-component nature of both visual imagery and creativity, there have been no systematic studies on how the different dimensions of creativity and imagery might interrelate.
Aims:
The main goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between different dimensions of creativity (artistic and scientific) and dimensions of visualization abilities and styles (object and spatial). In addition, we compared the contributions of object and spatial visualization abilities versus corresponding styles to scientific and artistic dimensions of creativity.
Samples:
Twenty-four undergraduate students (12 females) were recruited for the first study, and 75 additional participants (36 females) were recruited for an additional experiment.
Method:
Participants were administered a number of object and spatial visualization abilities and style assessments as well as a number of artistic and scientific creativity tests.
Results:
The results show that object visualization relates to artistic creativity and spatial visualization relates to scientific creativity, while both are distinct from verbal creativity. Furthermore, our findings demonstrate that style predicts corresponding dimension of creativity even after removing shared variance between style and visualization ability. The results suggest that styles might be a more ecologically valid construct in predicting real-life creative behaviour, such as performance in different professional domains.
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