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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Creativity Studies

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  • The embodied cognition theory suggests that mental processes are grounded in sensorimotor experiences.
  • Previous research has explored the link between embodiment and general creativity, but less is known about its role in visual creativity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether visual creativity is supported by embodied mechanisms using the simulation approach.
  • To examine the relationship between motor, spatial, and visual thoughts during creative tasks and their impact on object originality and appropriateness.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in the Creative Mental Synthesis Task, thinking aloud during the process.
  • Verbal protocols were analyzed by judges for motor, spatial, and visual thoughts during pre-inventive and inventive phases.
  • Final objects were evaluated for originality and appropriateness.

Main Results:

  • Object originality was positively predicted by inventive motor thoughts and pre-inventive spatial thoughts, but negatively by inventive spatial thoughts.
  • Object appropriateness was solely predicted by inventive visual thoughts.
  • Spatial transformations aided structure construction but not interpretation; visual details were crucial for categorization.

Conclusions:

  • Visual creativity appears to rely on embodied mechanisms, simulating actions for object utilization to enhance originality.
  • Spatial processing is important for generating creative structures, while visual details are essential for interpreting and classifying them.
  • The findings support the embodied view of creativity, highlighting the interplay of different cognitive and sensorimotor processes.