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3039.6 Behavioral and electrophysiological investigations of duration memory, T.B. Penney,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
A fundamental question about the memory representation of time is whether the magnitude of a
remembered duration modulates the cognitive resources required to represent that duration. I will
present data from a series of experiments in which human participants made duration judgments
about visual and auditory signals while electrical brain activity was recorded. For example, in one
task, an initial stimulus (S1) was presented and, following a delay, participants indicated whether a
comparison stimulus (S2) was equivalent to S1. Preliminary analyses of slow electrical potentials
recorded during the S1-S2 delay indicate that cognitive resource use is greater for longer
durations.
3040 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Insight and creative thinking
Convener and Chair: J. Luo, China
Co-convener: K. Niki, Japan
3040.1 An instructional study on creative thinking in adolescents, X. Qu, J. Shi, Institute of
Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
According to the comprehensive theoretical framework for fostering creativity, an educational
program of creativity improvement was designed featured in cognitive aspects, non-cognitive
aspects and cooperation & collaboration aspects. 20 gifted and 35 average adolescents aged 14-16
were involved in 4-months-program. Williams Creativity Assessment was used as one of the
methods assessing creativity improvement, in which ratio instead of raw score was introduced in
statistic analysis. Average students in experimental group were found increasing in creative
thinking such as openness and elaboration, while gifted students have no significant improvement.
Students were encouraged to exhibit their creativity by any means at the end of program. The
relationship of creativity and intelligence is discussed in the present study too.
3040.2 Ling, insight and rationality: Two different ways of knowledge creation, X. Zhao 1, 2 , Z.
Chen 3 , 1 Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University; Peking University, Beijing, China; 3 Hebei
Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
In Chinese culture, we have a special word ling (efficacy) to identify the equivalent of
psychological insight although it is implied more broad cultural and social meanings than what is
meant in a limited individual cognition. We have tried to present some cases, collected in popular
religion in rural China, of idea of ling through which a thought pattern of knowledge creation,
something like insight, will be examined. Finally, we will draw out of a comparison between the
knowledge creation of rationality and of insight both of which, from our own point of view, are
two ways of knowledge creation.
3040.3 Training on poem writing from inspiration, L. Song, High School affiliated to Ren Min
University of China, Beijing, China
Combining Western imagery theories with Eastern conventional culture, particularly the famous
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