Ep.96. How Does Cognition Sculpt Artistic Worlds?

"Disentangling the Impact of Artistic Creativity on Creative Thinking, Working Memory, Attention, and Intelligence: Evidence for Domain-Specific Relationships with a New Self-Report Questionnaire" by Katrin Lunke and Beat MeierSummaryThis research article introduces the Artistic Creativity Domains Compendium (ACDC), a novel self-report questionnaire designed to assess artistic creativity across distinct areas like visual arts, literature, music, and performing arts. The study's primary goal was to examine the relationships between artistic creativity and various cognitive functions, including creative thinking (both divergent and convergent), working memory, attention, and intelligence. By employing the ACDC with 270 adults, the researchers investigated whether these relationships were domain-specific, revealing that certain artistic domains showed unique associations with particular cognitive abilities. Ultimately, the paper argues for the ACDC as a valid tool for measuring artistic creativity and highlights the nuanced interplay between different forms of artistic expression and fundamental cognitive processes.

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