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| Title |
Bilingualism and Creativity: Benefits in Convergent Thinking Come with Losses in Divergent Thinking
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00273 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bernhard Hommel, Lorenza S. Colzato, Rico Fischer, Ingrid K. Christoffels |
| Abstract |
Bilingualism is commonly assumed to improve creativity but the mechanisms underlying creative acts, and the way these mechanisms are affected by bilingualism, are not very well understood. We hypothesize that learning to master multiple languages drives individuals toward a relatively focused cognitive-control state that exerts strong top-down impact on information processing and creates strong local competition for selection between cognitive codes. Considering the control requirements posed by creativity tasks tapping into convergent and divergent thinking, this predicts that high-proficient bilinguals should outperform low-proficient bilinguals in convergent thinking, while low-proficient bilinguals might be better in divergent thinking. Comparing low- and high-proficient bilinguals on convergent-thinking and divergent-thinking tasks indeed showed a high-proficient bilingual advantage for convergent thinking but a low-proficient bilingual advantage for fluency in divergent thinking. These findings suggest that bilingualism should not be related to "creativity" as a unitary concept but, rather, to the specific processes and mechanisms that underlie creativity. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 20% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 212 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 202 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 40 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 32 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 28 | 13% |
| Researcher | 14 | 7% |
| Lecturer | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 43 | 20% |
| Unknown | 44 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 81 | 38% |
| Social Sciences | 22 | 10% |
| Linguistics | 14 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 32 | 15% |
| Unknown | 47 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 September 2022.
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#13,182
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#53
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