2026-10-14T19:47:36Z https://www.scidb.cn/oai

10.57760/sciencedb.psych.01088 2026-07-15T18:13:39Z

2026-07-15 Dataset for Development of Creative Thinking Generation and Evaluation in Children Aged 4-8 Years: Evidence from Behavioral Data and fNIRS doi:10.57760/sciencedb.psych.01088 en This dataset mainly includes children’s basic age and gender information, responses in the creative generation task and expert ratings, children’s self-evaluations of the novelty and usefulness of their own ideas, as well as brain function indicators collected and processed using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The behavioral data include expert ratings of the novelty and usefulness of children’s creative ideas, children’s self-rated novelty and usefulness scores, and indicators related to the consistency between children’s self-evaluations and expert ratings. The fNIRS data include HbO changes during the creative generation and self-evaluation phases, activation indicators for regions of interest (ROIs), functional connectivity matrices during the generation phase, and graph-theoretical network metrics.This dataset can be used for further analyses on topics such as the development of children’s creativity, the generation-evaluation dual-process of creative thinking, creative metacognition, fNIRS-based neural mechanisms of children’s creativity, and age-related changes in brain networks. The data help reveal the relationships among creative idea generation, self-evaluation calibration, and brain functional organization in children aged 4–8 years, and may provide empirical evidence for early childhood creativity assessment, creativity education interventions, and developmental cognitive neuroscience research. creativity; generation-evaluation dual-process model; functional near-infrared spectroscopy; novelty; usefulness zhou shu jin Tang Jiaying Zhang Yuxuan RESTRICTED dataset Science Data Bank