Looking for Creativity: Where do we look when we look for new ideas?

Recent work using the eye movement monitoring technique has demonstrated that when people are engaged in thought they tend to disengage from the external world by blinking or fixating on an empty portion of the visual field, such as a blank wall, or out the window at the sky. This ‘looking at nothin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Carola eSalvi, Edward M. Bowden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00161/full