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Looking for Creativity: Where Do We Look When We Look for New Ideas?

Description:

Recent work using the eye movement monitoring technique has demonstrated that when people are engaged in thought they tend to disengage from the external world by blinking or fixating on an empty portion of the visual field, such as a blank wall, or out the window at the sky. This...

Keyword:

Insight problem solving, Creativity, Eye movements, Imagination, Attention, and Blink rate

Subject:

Creative thinking and Eye--Movements--Psychological aspects

Creator:

Carola Salvi and Edward M. Bowden

Contributor:

Tifei Yuan (editor) and NIH grant No T32 NS047987

Depositor:

Michael S Babinec

Owner:

Chris Diaz

Language:

English

Date Uploaded:

03/13/2017

Date Modified:

10/25/2017

Date Created:

2016-02-15

Resource Type:

Article

Alternate Identifier:

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00161