Walking can improve divergent creative ideation during and shortly after walking in experimental tasks.

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Oppezzo and Schwartz report four experiments in which walking improved creative ideation, particularly divergent thinking, during or shortly after walking.

The experiments do not establish that walking improves all forms of thinking, that the mechanism is a change in nervous-system state or attentional width, or that every problem is better solved while walking.

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