A Study About The Relationship Between Cognitive Inhibition,mental Rotation And Scientific Creativity

Using two classic experimental paradigm:mental rotation tasks and stroop tasks, this research aims to study:in the mental rotation tasks paradigm, the differences of cognitive inhibition ability between high scientific creativity and low scientific creativity;in the stroop tasks paradigm, the differences of mental rotation ability between high scientific creativity and low scientific creativity. The researcher selects 26 high and low scientific creativity subjects by scientific creativity scales from 260 freshmen, these subjects represent high and low scientific creativity group. All subjects participated in experiments of mental rotation and stroop tasks(stroop tasks can measure effectively cognitive inhibition ability), the results of mental rotation test and stroop tasks of two groups are compared, the conclusions is that:(1)In the stroop tasks, the subjects of both high scientific creativity and low scientific creativity, emerge stroop effect, but the stroop effect of the group of low scientific creativity is more obvious. The subjects of the high scientific creativity have fewer error rates significantly than the subjects of low scientific creativity. The error rates of consistentcy of color and word was significantly fewer than the error rates of inconsistentcy of color and word. The subjects of the high scientific creativity have faster reaction time than the subjects of low scientific creativity. The reaction time of consistentcy of color and word was significantly shorter than the reaction time of inconsistentcy of color and word. These phenomenons means that the subjects of the high scientific creativity have better cognitive inhibition ability than the subjects of low scientific creativity;( 2) In the mental rotation tasks, the subjects of the high scientific creativity have faster reaction time significantly than the subjects of low scientific creativity, this phenomenon indicates that the subjects of the high scientific creativity have better mental rotation ability than the subjects of low scientific creativity. In the mental rotation tasks, the reaction time is increasing with the growing rotational angle, and 180 got the maximum. The reaction time of the mirror is longer than the reaction time of zhengxiang.