objective: interest in the subject of creativity and its impacts on human life is growing extensively. however, only a few surveys pay attention to the relation between creativity and physiological changes. this paper presents a novel approach to distinguish between creativity states from electrocardiogram signals. nineteen linear and nonlinear features of the cardiac signal were extracted to d...

the present study aims to investigate the association between emotional-functional evelopment and formation of creative thinking among children of 4-6 years old in mashhad city. to do this, 80 children and their mothers were selected from preschools of mashhad city based on cluster sampling method.  the level of creativity among children was measured through torrance test of critical thinking (...

Creativity, the ability to produce innovative ideas, is a key higher-order cognitive function that is poorly understood. At the level of macroscopic cortical network dynamics, recent electroencephalography (EEG) data suggests that cortical oscillations in the alpha frequency band (8-12 Hz) are correlated with creative thinking. However, whether alpha oscillations play a functional role in creat...

Age-related differences in cognitive processes were used to understand agerelated declines in creativity. According to the Geneplore model (Finke, Ward, & Smith, 1992), there are two phases of creativity — generating an idea and exploring the implications of the idea — each with different underlying cognitive processes. These two phases are measured in the Creative Invention Task (CIT; Finke, 1...

The aim of this research was to compare the influence of the use of Information Technology (IT) on creative thinking of students of computer (software branch) and education (primary school education) in Islamic Azad University of Zanjan. The population included all the male and female students of software engineering and primary school education during the semester of 90-91, amounting to 100 pa...

This study involves a correlation between two measures of creativity: the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) and the divergent production subtests of the Structure of Intellect Learning Abilities Test (SOI-LA). A population of 263 junior high school and senior high students from Louisiana were tested with both the TTCT and the SOI-LA. Results from the study indicate that the SOI-LA is a...

Objective: Interest in the subject of creativity and its impacts on human life is growing extensively. However, only a few surveys pay attention to the relation between creativity and physiological changes. This paper presents a novel approach to distinguish between creativity states from electrocardiogram signals. Nineteen linear and nonlinear features of the cardiac signal were extracted to d...

objectives: in present study, we studied the effect of teaching three painting methods (free method, subject selection method and complementary method) on creativity of children with learning disabilities. first, among all disabled students, who refer to bizhani center for learning disabilities in arak city, 60 subjects were randomly selected as statistical sample. thus, the 45 children, divide...