CREATIVITY, PSYCHOMETRICS AND THINKING

• Authors: Zétényi Tamás

Title variants

HU

A kreativitás pszichometriája és a gondolkodás

• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The presentation is to give an outlook about the approaches and results of the creativity research of the past fifteen years, emphasizing the importance of the functional properties of the brain hemispheres in the creative process. A connection is proposed between the recently verified default brain network and the thinking process. On the basis of self-report data examples are given on what we are doing in rest when we seemingly do nothing. The recent data from cognitive neuroscience make it possible to show where this happens in the brain, too. The perceptual style, the psychosexual identification seemingly also determine the creative production. And finally, results of a REM sleep study which demonstrated that the hints exposed before a nap including REM phase are utilized during the creative problemsolving are discussed.

Keywords

EN

creativity; measurement of abilities; thinking process; default brain network; masculinity - femininity; REM

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 233-242
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zétényi Tamás