How We Imagine Poetic Constructions: The Role of Episodic Simulation in Poetry Composition.
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| Title: | How We Imagine Poetic Constructions: The Role of Episodic Simulation in Poetry Composition. |
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| Authors: | Zhang, Man (AUTHOR), Liu, Guanxiong (AUTHOR), Liu, Wei (AUTHOR), Zhou, Zhijin (AUTHOR), Chen, Shi (AUTHOR), Liang, Zheng (AUTHOR), Zhao, Qingbai (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Creativity Research Journal. Apr-Jun2026, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p437-450. 14p. |
| Subjects: | Poetry writing, Episodic memory, Originality, Mental imagery, Creative ability |
| Abstract: | Poetry is one of the most imaginative and creative expressions of language, but how we imagine and generate poetic scenes and events is not yet empirically studied. The present study investigated the role of episodic simulation – the ability to flexibly recombine details to construct new scenes and events – on a poetry composition task. In Experiment 1 and Experiment 2, episodic specificity induction (ESI) and imagination specificity induction were used to manipulate episodic retrieval and episodic simulation, respectively. Computational linguistic measures identified poems' objective creativity (semantic distance scores), and three subjective ratings assessed originality, appropriateness, and vividness in both experiments. Compared to control inductions, both ESI and imagination specificity induction significantly enhanced the poems' creativity measured by semantic distance. The analysis of metrics for creative processes revealed that ESI positively impacts both creative idea generation (higher forward flow values) and selection (lower decision error scores), while imagination specificity induction enhanced the performance of the idea generation stage, though it had no discernible effect on selection. Results in both experiments indicated that episodic simulation improved ideas by increasing semantic distance but impaired their appropriateness and vividness during poetry composition. These findings offer novel insights into the role of episodic simulation in complex creative activities like poetry composition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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