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As for the creative component of Sternberg's model, a Harvard study questions whether it is meaningful to treat creativity as a cognitive ability separate from analytical intelligence, but instead finds that creativity is simply the product of a high intelligence score combined with a low level of latent inhibition — when high intelligence levels are not present, low levels of latent inhibition put one especially at risk for schizophrenia ..

There is, however, evidence to suggest that certain aspects of creativity ( i. e. Divergent thinking ) are separable from analytical intelligence, and are better accounted for by the cognitive process of executive functioning.

More specifically, task-switching and interference management are suggested to play an important role in divergent thinking.