Creative cognition: Its implicit nature and conscious control
Description: We all have difficulty in coming up with good ideas or giving good explanations. We have clarified some of the mechanisms of such phenomena from the perspective of the structure of the task, the effort (cognitive resources), characteristics of the individual (personality, tendency to search for information, inhibitory function, etc.), and the surrounding environment (presence of noise, cognitive load, etc.). We discovered, for example, that people with a moderate inhibitory function can unconsciously obtain hints from the outside world in an environment with moderate noise, indicating that all factors interact in a complex manner. The results also suggest that unconscious storages of information have the ability to integrate pieces of information and can perform more complex processing than previously thought.
Amount: ¥16,120,000
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Investigator: Masasi Hattori
Institution: Ritsumeikan University
Funded outputs count: 13
Funder award ID: 15H02717
OpenAlex ID: G660503239