title: Creativity, ambiguous figures, and academic preference.
abstract: Research suggests that ambiguous figure reversal is associated with creativity, but current evidence relies on subjective self-report that is difficult to quantify (Wiseman, Watt, Gilhooly, Georgiou, 2011 British Journal of Psychology 102 615-622). Using quantifiable measures of both phenomena we confirm this claim. We also find that participants studying science experience much more frequent reversal--a novel and intriguing finding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK. m.j.doherty@stir.ac.uk
authors.forename: Martin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Doherty
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mair
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D002321:Career Choice; D003405:Creativity; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009903:Optical Illusions; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*