One new study explores music as a source of creativity. Since music has been shown to improve cognition and enhance learning and memory in other studies, it makes sense that perhaps it has an impact ...

Convergent thinking in and of itself isn’t a bad thing, of course. As mentioned, it’s divergent thinking’s essential partner to achieve the truly robust cognition that is creativity.

People who listened to happy music scored higher on the tests for divergent thinking, but not on convergent thinking. People listening to other types of music didn’t show the same difference.

In his new book The Creativity Challenge, Christensen outlines five primary methods of thinking that result in creative ideas: Divergent, Convergent, Lateral, Aesthetic, and Emergent.

The premise behind divergent thinking is this: Those who can seamlessly access the brain’s right temporal lobe are able to generate multiple related ideas for a given topic or problem by ...

The convergent thinking aspect of the invented task was—unsurprisingly—related to the standard Raven's format. The divergent thinking aspect, however, was not related to the standard version.

In the 1950s, the psychologist J. P. Guilford divided creative thought into two categories: convergent thinking and divergent thinking.