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  • Neuroscience
  • Creativity Research

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  • Creativity involves generating novel and effective ideas.
  • Creative idea evaluation and its metacognitive underpinnings are understudied.
  • Understanding knowledge structures' role in creativity is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the relationship between semantic memory structure and creative idea evaluation.
  • Examine metacognitive judgments of originality.
  • Differentiate objective creative performance from subjective self-assessments.

Main Methods:

  • Constructed semantic memory networks using a relatedness judgment task (N=106).
  • Measured network integration, local connectivity, and community structure.
  • Assessed creative performance and originality judgments via the alternative uses task (AUT).

Main Results:

  • Broadly connected semantic networks predicted objective originality.
  • Highly integrated networks predicted subjective originality judgments, indicating a dissociation.
  • Idea fluency in the AUT predicted both objective and subjective originality.

Conclusions:

  • Semantic memory structure significantly impacts creative thinking and metacognitive judgments.
  • Distinct network properties underlie objective creativity versus self-perceived originality.
  • Idea generation quantity is a robust predictor of creative output and self-evaluation.