Margaret Elizabeth Webb

The Workload Capacity of Semantic Search in Convergent Thinking

Linlin Shang, Daniel R Little, Margaret E Webb, Ami Eidels, Cheng-Ta Yang

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL

The present study used Systems Factorial Technology (Townsend & Nozawa, 1995) to investigate how people combine dual cues in seman..

Naming unrelated words predicts creativity

Jay A Olson, Johnny Nahas, Denis Chmoulevitch, Simon J Cropper, Margaret E Webb

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Several theories posit that creative people are able to generate more divergent ideas. If this is correct, simply naming unrelated..

Unusual uses and experiences are good for feeling insightful, but not for problem solving: contributions of schizotypy, divergent thinking, and fluid reasoning, to insight moments

Margaret E Webb, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The current paper investigates the individual differences underlying the ability to solve classic and contemporary insight problem..

Investigating aesthetics to afford more 'felt' knowledge and 'meaningful' navigation interface designs

F Carroll, Simon Cropper, Maggie Webb

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  2020 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)

Aesthetically manipulating the visual variables of a navigation interface design has the potential for substantial improvements in..

Autistic and positive schizotypal traits respectively predict better convergent and divergent thinking performance

A Abu-Akel, ME Webb, E de Montpellier, S Von Bentivegni, L Luechinger, A Ishii, C Mohr

Journal article  |  2020  |  Thinking Skills and Creativity

Creativity is considered essential to the advancement of every society. To measure creativity, researchers frequently assess diver..

Learning via Insight

JM Kizilirmak, TR Colin, M Becker, LJ Ball, ME Webb

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020

Commentary: Moment of (Perceived) Truth: Exploring Accuracy of Aha! Experiences

Margaret E Webb, Ruben E Laukkonen, Simon J Cropper, Daniel R Little

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF CREATIVE BEHAVIOR

Danek and Salvi (The Journal of Creative Behavior, 1–3, 2018) provide a sound overview of research on the relationship between fee..

Once more with feeling: Normative data for the aha experience in insight and noninsight problems

Margaret E Webb, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper

Journal article  |  2018  |  BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS

Despite the presumed ability of insight problems to elicit the subjective feeling of insight, as well as the use of so-called insi..

Losing Our Senses Online: Investigating How Aesthetics Might be Used to Ground People in Cyberspace

S Cropper, Fiona Carroll, Margaret Elizabeth Webb

Journal article  |  2018  |  IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

The term cyberspace was coined by William Gibson, who used it in his book, Neuromancer in 1989 [15]. Gibson [15, p. 128] defines c..

Insight

Book Chapter  |  2018