Abstract
The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a widely used test for measuring creativity, specifically the ability to make associations. The Remote Associates Test normally takes a linguistic form: given three words, the participant is asked to come up with a fourth word associated with all three of them. While visual creativity tests do exist, no creativity test to date can be given in both a visual and linguistic form. Such a test would allow the study of differences between various modalities, in the context of the same creative process. In this paper, a visual version of the well-known Remote Associates Test is constructed. This visual RAT is validated in relation to its linguistic counterpart.
Highlights
Humans are capable of creativity across a wide variety of tasks and domains, including the linguistic, visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactive, etc
High significant correlations were observed between the response times for visual counterpart (vRAT) and linguistic Remote Associates Test (RAT) queries (n = 170, r = 0.70, p < 0.001); this was a consequence of correlations between performance in the visual RAT and the comRAT-G
This paper focused on the creation and validation of a set of visual RAT queries
Summary
Cognitive Systems Group, Human-Centered Computing Lab, Freie Univeristät Berlin, Berlin, Germany. While visual creativity tests do exist, no creativity test to date can be given in both a visual and linguistic form. Such a test would allow the study of differences between various modalities, in the context of the same creative process. A visual version of the well-known Remote Associates Test is constructed. This visual RAT is validated in relation to its linguistic counterpart. Specialty section: This article was submitted to Cognitive Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
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