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Ovando-Tellez, Marcela; Kenett, Yoed N.; Benedek, Mathias; Bernard, Matthieu; Belo, Joan; Beranger, Benoit; Bieth, Theophile; Volle, Emmanuelle – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
Associative thinking plays a major role in creativity, as it involves the ability to link distant concepts. Yet, the neural mechanisms allowing to combine distant associates in creative thinking tasks remain poorly understood. We investigated the whole-brain functional connectivity patterns related to combining remote associations for creative…
Descriptors: Brain, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking
Janae Asali Oliver – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study explored the influence of racialized lived experiences (RLEs) on equitable decision-making among philanthropic leaders, employing a narrative inquiry approach. It examined how diversity within philanthropy, beyond tokenistic representation, can introduce a wide range of perspectives that enhance equitable decision-making…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support, Grantsmanship
Goltz, Jeffrey W. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
The central Florida region, faced with record tourism, a large service population, and significant population growth over the next few decades, must rely on a community-based institution of higher education with lifelong learning offerings, a local community college, to create world class public safety education and training for the region.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Community Colleges
Fü rst, Guillaume; Ghisletta, Paolo; Lubart, Todd – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2016
The present work proposes an integrative model of creativity that includes personality traits and cognitive processes. This model hypothesizes that three high-order personality factors predict two main process factors, which in turn predict intensity and achievement of creative activities. The personality factors are: "Plasticity" (high…
Descriptors: Personality, Creativity, Personality Traits, Cognitive Processes
Simonton, Dean Keith – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Arthur Cropley (2006) emphasized the critical place that convergent thinking has in creativity. Although he briefly refers to the blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory of creativity, his discussion could not reflect the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in BVSR, especially the resulting combinatorial models.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes
Sabitha, Sai; Mehrotra, Deepti; Bansal, Abhay – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
The most important dimension of learning is the content, and a Learning Management System (LMS) suffices this to a certain extent. The present day LMS are designed to primarily address issues like ease of use, search, content and performance. Many surveys had been conducted to identify the essential features required for the improvement of LMS,…
Descriptors: Convergent Thinking, Management Systems, Integrated Learning Systems, Knowledge Management
Kanne, Stephen M.; Wang, Jennifer; Christ, Shawn E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
The current study was motivated by a need for a self-report questionnaire that assesses a broad range of subthreshold autism traits, is brief and easily administered, and is relevant to the general population. An initial item pool was administered to 1,709 students. Structural validity analysis resulted in a 24-item questionnaire termed the…
Descriptors: Autism, Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
Dierkes, Sunda V. – Performance Improvement, 2012
The current debate over whether to choose just one universal human performance technology (HPT) model, in particular Langdon's language of work (LOW) model, promises a shared understanding among HPT professionals, credibility for the HPT profession, and a return on investment of time and effort in developing performance models over more than 70…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Models, Convergent Thinking, Problem Solving
Wichmann, Anne – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2010
This paper addresses the power of intonation to convey interpersonal or attitudinal meaning. Speakers have been shown to accommodate to each other in the course of conversation, and this convergence may be perceived as a sign of empathy. Accommodation often involves paradigmatic choices--choosing the same words, gestures, regional accent or…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Empathy, Intonation, Convergent Thinking
Corrigan, Kevin – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
More collaborative work in the humanities could be instrumental in helping to break down the traditional rigid boundaries between academic divisions and disciplines in modern universities. The value of the traditional model of the solitary humanities scholar or the collaborative science paradigm should not be discounted. However, increasing the…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Fused Curriculum
Pierre, Ashley R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
DeLone and McLean first introduced a review of information systems success (ISS) literature and proposed the information success model in 1992. The contribution of technology use and acceptance and its influence toward ISS is an area of information systems research that has received significant attention from both researchers and practitioners.…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Computer Literacy, Use Studies, Adoption (Ideas)
Caeyenberghs, Karen; Wilson, Peter H.; van Roon, Dominique; Swinnen, Stephan P.; Smits-Engelsman, Bouwien C. M. – Developmental Science, 2009
Motor imagery (MI) has become a principal focus of interest in studies on brain and behavior. However, changes in MI across development have received virtually no attention so far. In the present study, children (N = 112, 6 to 16 years old) performed a new, computerized Virtual Radial Fitts Task (VRFT) to determine their MI ability as well as the…
Descriptors: Brain, Children, Adolescents, Models
Venkatesan, Priya – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2010
The subject of this essay is NBIC convergence (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science convergence). NBIC convergence is a recurring trope that is dominated by the paradigm of integration of the sciences. It is largely influenced by the considerations of social and economic impact, and it assumes positivism in…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Economic Impact, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Schalock, Robert L.; Verdugo, Miguel Angel; Gomez, Laura E. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
As evidence-based practices become increasingly advocated for and used in the human services field it is important to integrate issues raised by three perspectives on evidence: empirical-analytical, phenomenological-existential, and post-structural. This article presents and discusses an evidence-based conceptual model and measurement framework…
Descriptors: Evidence, Early Intervention, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities
Cropley, Arthur; Cropley, David – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2008
Many teachers are interested in fostering creativity, and there are good reasons for doing so. However, the question of how to do it is made difficult by the paradoxes of creativity: mutually contradictory findings that are, nonetheless, simultaneously true (e.g. convergent thinking hampers creativity but is also necessary for it). These paradoxes…
Descriptors: Creativity, Convergent Thinking, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes
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