Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a test used for measuring creativity as relying on the power of making associations,and it normally takes a linguistic form (i.e., given three words, a fourth word associated with all three is asked for). Whileother visual creativity tests exist, no creativity test to date can be given in both a visual and linguistic form. Such a testwould allow the study of differences between various modalities, in the creativity domain. In this paper, a visual version ofthe well known Remote Associates Test is constructed. This visual RAT is validated in relation to its linguistic counterpartin a study with 42 participants. A significant correlation of 0.431 (p ¡ 0.01) between visual RAT scores and comRAT-Gscores was observed.