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Title: Age-Related Differences in Creative Cognition: The Mediating Role of Executive Functions and Associative Processes
Authors: Peláez-Alfonso, José Luis
Pelegrina, Santiago
Lechuga, M. Teresa
Abstract: Divergent and convergent creativity may rely on associative and executive control processes. We examined whether age-related differences in both types of creativity are mediated by executive functions and associative processes. A total of 427 primary, secondary-school, and university students completed a battery of tasks measuring executive functioning (updating, inhibition and shifting), verbal fluency, and divergent (fluency, flexibility, and originality) and convergent creativity (remote-associative problems). The results confirmed that executive and associative processes accounted for age-related differences in divergent and convergent creativity, albeit to different degrees. Specifically, verbal fluency contributed to explaining age differences in both types of creativity, whereas updating and inhibition mediated age-related differences only in convergent creativity. These findings provide evidence for the differential contribution of executive and associative processes to age-differences in both types of creativity, and provide additional support for a dual-process view of creativity.
Keywords: age-related differences
divergent creativity
convergent creativity
executive functions,
Issue Date: 2024
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Citation: Peláez-Alfonso, J. L., Pelegrina, S., & Lechuga, M. T. (2024). Age-related differences in creative cognition: The mediating role of executive functions and associative processes. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000666
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