Event Related Potentials (ERP) Study to Understand Function to Object Mapping for Engineering Student

Abstract "Creativity" is one of the highly valued competencies in the engineering discipline. In this research, investigators remodeled modified Alternative Uses of Task (AUT) created by Kröger et al., asking participants to judge the novelty and appropriateness of a given function related to a design solution. While in the original Kröger et al. model, participants were asked to judge the novelty and appropriateness of an alternative "use" or "function" for an object in their study. In the current research, the keywords were used as potential functions a solution to the associated design task might have. The primary outcome of this study is to understand the N400, post-N400 components, and the alpha band TRP activity in relation to the process of…