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Domain-Specificity of Creativity: A Study on the Relationship Between Visual Creativity and Visual Mental Imagery
Massimiliano Palmiero1, Raffaella Nori2, Vincenzo Aloisi1
1Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila , L'Aquila, Italy.
Frontiers in Psychology
|December 10, 2015
Summary
This study explored the link between visual creativity and mental imagery processes. Findings suggest visual creativity is specific to the domain and task, influenced by image transformation abilities.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psychology of Creativity
Background:
- Creativity involves generating original and valuable ideas.
- Visual creativity is a key aspect, but its relationship with cognitive processes is not fully understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between visual creativity and cognitive processes of visual mental imagery.
- To determine if specific mental imagery abilities predict creative performance.
Main Methods:
- Fifty college students completed creativity tasks (Creative Synthesis Task, Drawing Ability Test) and mental imagery tasks (generation, inspection, transformation).
- Measures included originality, synthesis, transformation, graphic ability, esthetic, and creativity scores.
- Vividness of imagery and verbalizer-visualizer cognitive style were also assessed.
Main Results:
- All creativity measures correlated positively with image transformation ability.
- Transformation ability predicted originality of inventions and artistic drawing scores.
- Visualization cognitive style predicted invention originality; imagery vividness predicted invention practicality.
Conclusions:
- Visual creativity appears to be domain- and task-specific.
- Specific mental imagery processes, particularly transformation, play a role in different aspects of visual creativity.
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