Jonczyk, R., & van Hell, J., & Okudan Kremer, G. E., & Siddique, Z. (2019, June), Board 142: Neurocognitive Evidence on the Impact of Topical Familiarity in Creative Outcomes   Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32257

\bibitem{asee_peer_32257}
  Jonczyk, R., \& van Hell, J., \& Okudan Kremer, G. E., \& Siddique, Z. (2019, June), \emph{Board 142: Neurocognitive Evidence on the Impact of Topical Familiarity in Creative Outcomes }
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32257

Rafal Jonczyk, Janet van Hell,  Gül E. Okudan Kremer, and Zahed Siddique.  "Board 142: Neurocognitive Evidence on the Impact of Topical Familiarity in Creative Outcomes ".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://strategy.asee.org/32257 Internet.  08 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_32257}
  Rafal Jonczyk, Janet van Hell,  Gül E. Okudan Kremer, and Zahed Siddique.
  "Board 142: Neurocognitive Evidence on the Impact of Topical Familiarity in Creative Outcomes ".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://strategy.asee.org/32257 Internet.  08 Jun, 2024

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author = "Rafal Jonczyk, Janet van Hell,  Gül E. Okudan Kremer, and Zahed Siddique"
title = "Board 142: Neurocognitive Evidence on the Impact of Topical Familiarity in Creative Outcomes "
booktitle = "2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition "
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Engineering programs, in general, do not explicitly address the need to enhance divergent thinking. To a certain extent this is due to a lack in knowledge on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying divergent thinking, and creative ideation more generally. We hypothesize that we can help enhance our students’ divergent thinking and creative processing outcomes by investigating the impacts of carefully selected methods and tools enabled by developments in the robust analysis of engineering ideation performance, and neurocognitive responses to creativity. 

In this paper, we present an experiment using the Event-Related brain Potentials (ERP) technique and creative language use (funded by Core R&D Programs). More specifically, we collected ERP responses to literal, nonsense, and novel metaphorical sentences that were either referring to engineering knowledge or general knowledge, testing engineering and non-engineering students. Following Rutter et al. [1], sentences differed in verb only and had been classified in prior sentence norming studies as highly unusual and highly appropriate (novel metaphors), low unusual and highly appropriate (literal sentences), and highly unusual and low appropriate (nonsense sentences). Participants read sentences while their EEG was recorded, and after reading the sentence made judgments about its unusualness and appropriateness. The findings indicate that prior knowledge modulates novel metaphor processing at the stage of lexico–semantic access, indexed by the amplitude of N400 component. Specifically, N400 amplitudes to novel metaphorical sentences are significantly reduced and pattern with literal sentences in engineers; in nonengineers, by contrast, we observed increased N400 amplitudes to novel metaphorical sentences that pattern with anomalous sentences. This mirror effect on the N400 corroborates recent findings demonstrating a strong impact of prior experience and expertise on meaning ambiguity resolution, which may in turn have implications for creative cognition.
AU  - Rafal Jonczyk
AU  - Janet van Hell
AU  -  Gül E. Okudan Kremer
AU  - Zahed Siddique
CY  - Tampa, Florida
DA  - 2019/06/15
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Board 142: Neurocognitive Evidence on the Impact of Topical Familiarity in Creative Outcomes 
UR  - https://strategy.asee.org/32257
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--32257
ER  -