| Autor: |
Meyer ML; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College., Hershfield HE; Anderson School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles., Waytz AG; Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University., Mildner JN; Department of Psychology, Princeton University., Tamir DI; Department of Psychology, Princeton University. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of personality and social psychology [J Pers Soc Psychol] 2019 Apr; Vol. 116 (4), pp. 483-494. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Feb 04. |
| DOI: |
10.1037/pspa0000148 |
| Abstrakt: |
Human imagination is bounded. As situations become more distant in time, place, perspective, and likelihood, they also become more difficult to simulate. What underlies the ability to successfully engage in distal simulations? Here we examine the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying distal simulation by studying individuals known for transcending these limits: creative experts. First, 2 behavioral studies establish that creative experts indeed succeed at engaging in vivid distal simulations, compared to less creative individuals. Performance on a traditional measure of creativity (Study 1) and real-world success in creative pursuits (Study 2) corresponded with more vivid distal simulations across temporal, spatial, social, and hypothetical domains. Study 3 used neuroimaging to identify the neural mechanism supporting creative experts' simulation success. Whereas creative experts and controls recruit the same neural mechanism (the medial prefrontal cortex) while simulating common or proximal events, creative experts preferentially engage a distinct neural mechanism (the dorsomedial subsystem of the default network) while simulating distal events. Moreover, creative experts showed greater functional connectivity within this network at rest, suggesting they may be prepared to engage this mechanism, by default. Studying creative expertise provides new insight into the ability to mentally transcend the here and now. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). |
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MEDLINE |
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