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  • Psychology
  • Neuroimaging

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  • Divergent thinking, crucial for creativity, involves generating diverse solutions.
  • Frontal lobe function, vital for divergent thinking, relies on white matter integrity.
  • Aging can impair frontal lobe functions and white matter connectivity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare verbal divergent thinking between young adults (YAs) and older adults (OAs).
  • To correlate divergent thinking performance with working memory, language, and inhibition.
  • To investigate age-related differences in cognitive processes underlying creativity.

Main Methods:

  • 30 YAs and 30 OAs completed non-time-constrained verbal divergent thinking tasks.
  • Performance was assessed for total fluency and response uniqueness.
  • Correlational analyses examined relationships with working memory, language, and disengagement/inhibition.

Main Results:

  • Older adults generated significantly more unique responses than young adults.
  • No significant difference was found in total verbal fluency between age groups.
  • Correlations revealed distinct cognitive underpinnings for divergent thinking in YAs and OAs.

Conclusions:

  • Older adults may leverage greater life experience and language exposure for enhanced response uniqueness.
  • Cognitive strategies for divergent thinking may differ across the adult lifespan.
  • Further research is needed to explore the neurocognitive mechanisms of age-related creativity changes.