A neuroimaging investigation of design ideation with and without inspirational stimuli-understanding the meaning of near and far stimuli

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作者
Goucher-Lambert, Kosa [1 ]
Moss, Jarrod [2 ]
Cagan, Jonathan [1 ]
机构
[1] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[2] Mississippi State Univ, Dept Psychol, Starkville, MS 39762 USA
基金
美国安德鲁·梅隆基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
design cognition; analogical reasoning; interdisciplinary; conceptual design; creativity; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; NEURAL ACTIVITY; ANALOGY; MEMORY; FMRI; INTEGRATION; HYPOTHESIS; SIMILARITY; MODEL;
D O I
10.1016/j.destud.2018.07.001
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Despite the fact that inspirational stimuli (e.g., analogies) have been shown to be an effective means to assist designers, little is known about the neurological processes supporting inspired design ideation. To explore the impact of inspirational stimuli on design ideation, an fMRI concept generation task was developed (N = 21). Results demonstrate that inspirational stimuli of any kind (near or far from the problem space) improve the fluency of idea generation. Furthermore, neuroimaging data help to uncover two distinct brain activation networks based upon reasoning with and without inspirational stimuli. We term these inspired internal search and unsuccessful external search. These brain activation networks give insight into differences between ideating with and without inspirational stimuli, and between inspirational stimuli of varying distances. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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