Thursday, December 31, 2015

Physical Activity Benefits Creativity: Squeezing a Ball for Enhancing Creativity - stroke recovery

You're going to have to become creative with your recovery because your doctor has no clue how to get you 100% recovered. Get your mind out of the gutter, this is serious stuff. Your doctor should be able to tell you which hand used is better for creativity. Your affected one? Or your 'good' one?
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10400419.2015.1087258
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DOI:
10.1080/10400419.2015.1087258
JongHan Kima*
pages 328-333
  • Published online: 13 Nov 2015
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Abstract

Studies in embodied cognition show that physical sensations, such as touch and movement, influence cognitive processes. Two studies were conducted to test whether squeezing a soft versus a hard ball facilitates different types of creativity. Squeezing a malleable ball would increase divergent creativity by catalyzing multiple or alternative ideas, whereas squeezing a hard ball would increase convergent creativity by facilitating only a single correct response. In Study 1, participants squeezed either a hard ball or a soft ball while completing the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT), a divergent creativity test. The same procedures were used in Study 2 except that the TTCT was replaced with the Remote Associates Test, a convergent creativity test. Participants who squeezed a soft ball generated more original and diverse ideas (Study 1), whereas participants who squeezed a hard ball were better at coming up with a single correct answer (Study 2).
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