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Are Intelligence and Creativity Really so Different?: Fluid Intelligence, Executive Processes, and Strategy Use in Divergent Thinking
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Nusbaum, Emily C.; Silvia, Paul J. – Intelligence, 2011
Contemporary creativity research views intelligence and creativity as essentially unrelated abilities, and many studies have found only modest correlations between them. The present research, based on improved approaches to creativity assessment and latent variable modeling, proposes that fluid and executive cognition is in fact central to…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Correlation
Differences in Cognitive Processes between Gifted, Intelligent, Creative, and Average Individuals While Solving Complex Problems: An EEG Study.
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Jausovec, Norbert – Intelligence, 2000
Studied differences in cognitive processes related to creativity and intelligence using EEG coherence and power measures in the lower and upper alpha bands. Results of 2 experiments involving 49 and 48 right-handed student teachers suggest that creativity and intelligence are different abilities that also differ in the neurological activity…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
Processing Speed, Intelligence, Creativity, and School Performance: Testing of Causal Hypotheses Using Structural Equation Models
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Rindermann, H.; Neubauer, A. C. – Intelligence, 2004
According to mental speed theory of intelligence, the speed of information processing constitutes an important basis for cognitive abilities. However, the question, how mental speed relates to real world criteria, like school, academic, or job performance, is still unanswered. The aim of the study is to test an indirect speed-factor model in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Intelligence, Creativity