Conference proceeding
Sustaining creativity with neuro-cognitive feedback: a preliminary study
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2020), pp 084-091
2020
Abstract
Ideation is a key phase in engineering design and brainstorming is an established method during ideation. The proposal of ideas tends to peak at the beginning of the brainstorming process and quickly decreases over time. In this preliminary study, we tested an innovative solution to sustain ideation by providing engineering designers feedback about their neuro-cognition. We used a novel neuro-imaging technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to monitor engineering design students during a brainstorming task. Half were given real-time feedback about their brain activation. Our results show that these students applied more cognitive effort in the region of the brain generally associated with memory retrieval and making associations compared to the control group of students that were not provided neuro-feedback. Students that received neuro-feedback also generated significantly more concepts over time and displayed a higher fluency of engineering design solutions.
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- Title
- Sustaining creativity with neuro-cognitive feedback: a preliminary study
- Creators
- Tripp Shealy - Virginia TechJohn Gero - University of North Carolina at CharlotteJulie Milovanovic - École Centrale de NantesMo Hu - Virginia Tech
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2020), pp 084-091
- Conference
- The Sixth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2020) Oulu, Finland, August 26th – 28th 2020
- Series
- Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2020)
- Publisher
- The Design Society
- Number of pages
- 8
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Other Identifier
- 991022156316204721