Divergent creative thinking in young and older adults: Extending the effects of an episodic specificity induction.
Recent research has suggested that an episodic specificity induction-brief training in recollecting the details of a past experience-enhances divergent creative thinking on the alternate uses task (AUT) in young adults, without affecting performance on tasks thought to involve little divergent think...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 974 - 989 |
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