Sergio Agnoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4640771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio Agnoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio |
| FAMILY NAME | Agnoli |
| SIGNATURE | AGNOLI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trieste |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3004-7988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Creative potential as a bridge between mathematics and the real-life
Word problem-solving is a critical yet challenging mathematical skill for primary school children. This study examined the role of domain-general and mathematical creative potential in word problem-solving while accounting for fluid intelligence, problem representation, and computation skills. Additionally, it explored whether creative potential’s influence varied across problem types. A total of 310 fourth and fifth graders were assessed on doma…
Creative Cognition
Creative cognition research has flourished in recent decades, revealing how extraordinary creative outcomes emerge from ordinary cognitive processes. However, the field faces fragmentation that hinders consensus and integration. This research agenda, developed through a collaborative workshop of 50 European researchers at the Lorentz Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, identifies four critical challenges for advancing creative cognition research. …
Creativity, the fountain of youth
Creativity relies on the ability to make new associations between concepts stored in our semantic memory in order to create new and effective ideas in a specific context. Recent studies showed that creative people are characterized by more flexible semantic memory structures, which facilitate novel associations between concepts. On the other hand, older adults exhibit more rigid semantic memory structures and ability to access these structures, r…
When DA Vinci Met Wallas
By positing the centrality of process‐oriented definitions of creativity, the article revisits Graham Wallas's The Art of Thought , showing that its legacy extends beyond the canonical four‐stage model for the creative process. We first extract from Wallas's book some lesser known details that are proxies of metacognitive and emotional control. Second, we trace a century of theoretical development in models of the creative process, discussing how…
Creativity and irrelevance processing
Processing nominally irrelevant information has been linked to successful creative ideation, especially in open-minded individuals. To investigate attentional processing, prior studies in this field relied on in- laboratory eye tracking. Despite several advantages, this method also comes with downsides like high costs and slow data collection. To address these issues, online, webcam-based eye tracking might be a prom- ising solution. In three pre…
Incongruent objects are surprising but do not inspire more original ideas
This study investigates the relationship between surprise and creative ideation through four preregistered experiments (total N= 964). In Experiments 1a (N= 117) and 1b (N= 143), participants viewed images of objects with differing levels of congruence with the environmental context using stimuli from the Scene Grammar (SCEGRAM) database, then completed an Alternative Uses Task for those objects. Experiment 2 (N= 316) replicated these ndings usin…
Idhol, a Holistic Model for the Analysis of Individual Differences in the Creative Process
This paper introduces a new dynamic theoretical framework for understanding the role of individual differences (IDs) as necessary mechanisms in the creative process: the Individual Differences HOListic (IDHOL) model. First, through a series of questions, some micro- and macro dynamics in which IDs participate as organizers of the creative process are explained. The IDHOL model essentially explains where and when IDs can influence the creative pro…
Multilingual semantic distance
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual scoring practices have benefited the field, but they also have limitations, including labor-intensiveness and subjectivity, which can adversely impact the reliability and validity of assessments. To address these challenges, researchers are increasingly employing autom…
What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation
Past research showed that apparently irrelevant information for a creative task at hand can lead to higher creative performance, especially in open-minded individuals. Through two diverse experimental procedures, the present work investigated which type of irrelevance information can inspire (i.e., increase) the creative performance during a divergent thinking (DT) task and how open-minded individuals can be inspired by this kind of information. …
Dopamine supports idea originality
The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a crucial role in human creative behaviour. Specifically, striatal dopamine seems to be associated with specific dimensions of divergent thinking performance, especially with categorical diversity (flexibility) of ideas. In experimental contexts, spontaneous Eye Blink Rate (sEBR) has been used as a proxy for striatal dopamine, and an inverted U-shape relationship between sEBR and flexibility has been demonstrat…
This is My Fairy Tale
Creative potential is a set of multidimensional resources concerning the latent ability to produce original and adaptive work. Confluent theoretical models, in particular, stated that, in order to express creative potential in an effective way, resources should converge and interact efficiently. Within such a confluent framework, the present study explored whether the increase in specific cognitive resources defining creative potential during chi…
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This is My Fairy Tale
Creative potential is a set of multidimensional resources concerning the latent ability to produce original and adaptive work. Confluent theoretical models, in particular, stated that, in order to express creative potential in an effective way, resources should converge and interact efficiently. Within such a confluent framework, the present study explored whether the increase in specific cognitive resources defining creative potential during chi…
Multilingual semantic distance
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual scoring practices have benefited the field, but they also have limitations, including labor-intensiveness and subjectivity, which can adversely impact the reliability and validity of assessments. To address these challenges, researchers are increasingly employing autom…
What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation
Past research showed that apparently irrelevant information for a creative task at hand can lead to higher creative performance, especially in open-minded individuals. Through two diverse experimental procedures, the present work investigated which type of irrelevance information can inspire (i.e., increase) the creative performance during a divergent thinking (DT) task and how open-minded individuals can be inspired by this kind of information. …
Dopamine supports idea originality
The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a crucial role in human creative behaviour. Specifically, striatal dopamine seems to be associated with specific dimensions of divergent thinking performance, especially with categorical diversity (flexibility) of ideas. In experimental contexts, spontaneous Eye Blink Rate (sEBR) has been used as a proxy for striatal dopamine, and an inverted U-shape relationship between sEBR and flexibility has been demonstrat…
Creativity and irrelevance processing
Processing nominally irrelevant information has been linked to successful creative ideation, especially in open-minded individuals. To investigate attentional processing, prior studies in this field relied on in- laboratory eye tracking. Despite several advantages, this method also comes with downsides like high costs and slow data collection. To address these issues, online, webcam-based eye tracking might be a prom- ising solution. In three pre…
Incongruent objects are surprising but do not inspire more original ideas
This study investigates the relationship between surprise and creative ideation through four preregistered experiments (total N= 964). In Experiments 1a (N= 117) and 1b (N= 143), participants viewed images of objects with differing levels of congruence with the environmental context using stimuli from the Scene Grammar (SCEGRAM) database, then completed an Alternative Uses Task for those objects. Experiment 2 (N= 316) replicated these ndings usin…
Idhol, a Holistic Model for the Analysis of Individual Differences in the Creative Process
This paper introduces a new dynamic theoretical framework for understanding the role of individual differences (IDs) as necessary mechanisms in the creative process: the Individual Differences HOListic (IDHOL) model. First, through a series of questions, some micro- and macro dynamics in which IDs participate as organizers of the creative process are explained. The IDHOL model essentially explains where and when IDs can influence the creative pro…
Creative potential as a bridge between mathematics and the real-life
Word problem-solving is a critical yet challenging mathematical skill for primary school children. This study examined the role of domain-general and mathematical creative potential in word problem-solving while accounting for fluid intelligence, problem representation, and computation skills. Additionally, it explored whether creative potential’s influence varied across problem types. A total of 310 fourth and fifth graders were assessed on doma…
Creative Cognition
Creative cognition research has flourished in recent decades, revealing how extraordinary creative outcomes emerge from ordinary cognitive processes. However, the field faces fragmentation that hinders consensus and integration. This research agenda, developed through a collaborative workshop of 50 European researchers at the Lorentz Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, identifies four critical challenges for advancing creative cognition research. …
Creativity, the fountain of youth
Creativity relies on the ability to make new associations between concepts stored in our semantic memory in order to create new and effective ideas in a specific context. Recent studies showed that creative people are characterized by more flexible semantic memory structures, which facilitate novel associations between concepts. On the other hand, older adults exhibit more rigid semantic memory structures and ability to access these structures, r…
When DA Vinci Met Wallas
By positing the centrality of process‐oriented definitions of creativity, the article revisits Graham Wallas's The Art of Thought , showing that its legacy extends beyond the canonical four‐stage model for the creative process. We first extract from Wallas's book some lesser known details that are proxies of metacognitive and emotional control. Second, we trace a century of theoretical development in models of the creative process, discussing how…
Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (11 works) · Creativity (10 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mind wandering and attention (3 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognition (2 works)