Professional creators develop the capacity to mindfully mind-wander, identifying and capitalizing on mind wandering during long-term creative enterprises¶
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q1 i? One of the most important metacognitive abilities professional creators must develop is the capacity to mindfully mind-wander, the ability to identify and capitalize on mind wandering during long-term creative enterprises. → Preiss David D 2022
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Preiss David D 2022¶
Preiss David D. (2022). Metacognition, Mind Wandering, and Cognitive Flexibility: Understanding Creativity. Journal of Intelligence. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9500634/
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Theoretical argument in the review: as creators develop expertise, they recognize the role of spontaneous cognition in the generative stage, and their meta-awareness allows them to put spontaneous cognition at the service of the creative process. The article offers this as an interpretive claim, not a tested result.
"One of the most important metacognitive abilities professional creators must develop is the capacity to mindfully mind-wander, which is the ability to identify and capitalize on mind wandering during long-term creative enterprises (Preiss and Cosmelli 2017)."
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Related Claims¶
- High school students capitalize on the creative potential of mind wandering at the highest levels of attentional capacity and metacognition — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Metacognition may limit creativity during the generative stage but facilitate it during the exploratory stage — related
- Mind wandering episodes during incubation are correlated with individuals' ability to solve creative problems — related
- Trait mind wandering predicts verbal creativity over fluid intelligence, reading difficulties, and declarative knowledge of metacognitive strategies in tertiary-level students — related
- Experienced meditators show reduced default mode network activation with enhanced PCC–dorsolateral PFC connectivity during meditation — related
- Among 134 reviewed studies, a significant number examined mind wandering alongside cognitive and metacognitive SRL processes, predominantly using self-report measures — related
- Mind wandering can function as a resource for regulation when learners have metacognitive awareness of attentional shifts — related
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Professional creators develop the capacity to mindfully mind-wander, identifying and capitalizing on mind wandering during long-term creative enterprises |
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Professional creators develop the capacity to mindfully mind-wander, identifying and capitalizing on mind wandering during long-term creative enterprises |
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