Precious Mones

Precious Mones

Precious Mones is a researcher and first author of the 2022 Thinking Skills and Creativity paper on ambient noise, cognitive flexibility and idea generation.

Who they are

The work of Precious Mones reaches this site through the paper listed below. The name is tied to Cognitive Flexibility, Moderate Ambient Noise Effect. Their paper reports: 42 undergraduate adults did a Dimensional Change Card Sort and an Alternative Uses Task in silence and with ambient noise through headphones; on average more and more original ideas with noise; higher flexibility went with more ideas in noise.

Key papers

Mones, P., & Massonnié, J. (2022). What can you do with a bottle and a hanger? Students with high cognitive flexibility give more ideas in the presence of ambient noise. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 46, 101116. What it reports: 42 undergraduate adults did a Dimensional Change Card Sort and an Alternative Uses Task in silence and with ambient noise through headphones; on average more and more original ideas with noise; higher flexibility went with more ideas in noise.

Key ideas

Cognitive Flexibility: The ability to shift between ways of thinking.

Moderate Ambient Noise Effect: Better creative performance at a moderate background noise level than at a low one, reversing at a high one.

Sources

  1. Mones, P., & Massonnié, J. (2022). What can you do with a bottle and a hanger? Students with high cognitive flexibility give more ideas in the presence of ambient noise. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 46, 101116.