Adults outperform adolescents on fluency measures of divergent thinking (scanner AU-score, verbal fluency, and AUT-brick fluency), but not on originality or flexibility¶
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q3 i? No age group effects were observed for AUT-brick originality, and flexibility differences were only marginally significant. → Kleibeuker 2013
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Kleibeuker 2013¶
Kleibeuker, S. W., Koolschijn, P. C. M. P., Jolles, D. D., De Dreu, C. K. W., and Crone, E. A. (2013). The neural coding of creative idea generation across adolescence and early adulthood. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7:905. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00905
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MANOVA on AUT-brick measures showed a significant age group effect driven by fluency (t(37) = 2.66, p = 0.01). "No age group effects were observed for AUT-brick originality" and flexibility was only marginally significant, indicating the developmental advantage is specific to fluency.
"Age group differences were only marginally significant for AUT-brick flexibility [t(37) = 1.84, p = 0.07]. No age group effects were observed for AUT-brick originality."
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Related Claims¶
- More solutions are generated in the OC condition than the AU condition, and adults generate more answers than adolescents in general, with no condition-specific age difference — related
- Adults show larger left IFG/MFG condition effects (AU relative to baseline) than adolescents, indicating adolescents do not yet recruit left lateral PFC at an adult level for creative thinking — related
- AU and OC conditions show distinct correlation patterns with external creativity and fluency measures, supporting their differentiation as divergent thinking versus verbal ability conditions — related
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Adults outperform adolescents on fluency measures of divergent thinking (scanner AU-score, verbal fluency, and AUT-brick fluency), but not on originality or flexibility |
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Adults outperform adolescents on fluency measures of divergent thinking (scanner AU-score, verbal fluency, and AUT-brick fluency), but not on originality or flexibility |
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