title: Suggesting strategies improves creative visual synthesis.
abstract: An experiment assessed whether a figural or an interpretative strategy can enhance creative visual synthesis. 45 undergraduates were presented a set of simple figures and asked to imagine combining them to obtain a whole pattern corresponding to a creative product. In the figurative condition participants were instructed to combine figures in unusual ways; in the interpretative condition they were induced to look for unusual meanings embedded in the combinations; in the control condition no strategy was suggested. Results showed that certain strategies induced a more flexible visual synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Milan, Italia. antoniet@mi.unicatt.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Antonietti
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D013404:Suggestion; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis