Dataset for Development of Creative Thinking Generation and Evaluation in Children Aged 4-8 Years: Evidence from Behavioral Data and fNIRS

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.