Institute of Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research, German Sport University Cologne, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2015 Feb 10;6:115. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00115. eCollection 2015.
The goal of the study was to investigate the relationship between domain-general working memory capacity and domain-specific creativity amongst experienced soccer players. We administered the automated operation span task in combination with a domain-specific soccer creativity task to a group of 61 experienced soccer players to address the question whether an athlete's domain-specific creativity is restricted by their domain-general cognitive abilities (i.e., working memory capacity). Given that previous studies have either found a positive correlation, a negative correlation, or no correlation between working memory capacity and creativity, we analyzed the data in an exploratory manner by following recent recommendations to report effect-size estimations and their precision in form of 95% confidence intervals. The pattern of results provided evidence that domain-general working memory capacity is not associated with creativity in a soccer-specific creativity task. This pattern of results suggests that future research and theorizing on the role of working memory in everyday creative performance needs to distinguish between different types of creative performance while also taking the role of domain-specific experience into account.
本研究旨在探讨经验丰富的足球运动员的一般领域工作记忆容量与特定领域创造力之间的关系。我们对 61 名经验丰富的足球运动员进行了自动化操作跨度任务和特定领域足球创造力任务的组合测试，以解决运动员的特定领域创造力是否受到其一般领域认知能力（即工作记忆容量）限制的问题。鉴于先前的研究要么发现工作记忆容量与创造力之间存在正相关、负相关或无相关关系，我们以探索性的方式分析了数据，按照最近的建议报告效应大小估计值及其精度，以 95%置信区间的形式报告。结果模式表明，一般领域的工作记忆容量与足球特定创造力任务中的创造力无关。这一结果模式表明，未来关于工作记忆在日常创造性表现中的作用的研究和理论需要在考虑特定领域经验的作用的同时，区分不同类型的创造性表现。
