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  • Neuroscience of Creativity
  • Problem-Solving Research

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  • Creative problem solving often fails due to reliance on heuristic responses.
  • The default-interventionist account suggests analytic intervention requires competing semantic representations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test if semantic accessibility buffers against heuristic defaults in creative problem solving.
  • To investigate the interaction between semantic accessibility and situational induction.

Main Methods:

  • Modified Chinese Remote Associates Task (CRAT).
  • Independent manipulation of semantic accessibility (high/low) and situational induction (strong/weak).

Main Results:

  • A significant interaction was found between semantic accessibility and induction.
  • Strong induction impaired performance only with low semantic accessibility.
  • High semantic accessibility attenuated induction costs, suggesting a buffering effect.

Conclusions:

  • Semantic accessibility acts as a cognitive buffer, facilitating analytic override of heuristic defaults.
  • Knowledge constrains and enables creative insight based on its interaction with experience-driven heuristics.
  • Findings resolve conflicting claims regarding the role of semantic knowledge in creativity.