Flexibility of thought in high creative individuals represented by percolation analysis.

ABSTRACT: Flexibility of thought is theorized to play a critical role in the ability of high creative individuals to generate novel and innovative ideas. However, this has been examined only through indirect behavioral measures. Here we use network percolation analysis (removal of links in a network whose strength is below an increasing threshold) to computationally examine the robustness of the semantic memory networks of low and high creative individuals. Robustness of a network indicates its flexibility and thus can be used to quantify flexibility of thought as related to creativity. This is based on the assumption that the higher the robustness of the semantic network, the higher its flexibility. Our analysis reveals that the semantic network of high creative individuals is more robust to networ

SUBMITTER: Kenett YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5798367 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature