Common brain activation and connectivity patterns supporting the generation of creative uses and creative metaphors

Chen, Qunlin; He, Ruizhi; Sun, Jiangzhou; Ding, Ke; Wang, Xi; He, Li; Zhuang, Kaixiang; Lloyd-Cox, James; Qiu, Jiang

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108487

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“…36,37 Previous studies have suggested that functional connectivity with the mPFC has shown significant relationship with divergent thinking which differs with individual creative abilities, 35,38 such as with lateral temporal cortex. 38,39 Psychophysiological interaction between mPFC and left IFG was also found to be positively correlated with creative use and creative metaphor generation tasks 40 which inferred that generation of creative ideas necessitates the making of remote semantic association and their conceptual integration. The present findings demonstrated causal connection from mPFC to bilateral IFG during the search and generation of alternative uses, regardless of individual DT ability.…”

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Influence of Creativity Stimulation on Brain Connectivity during Divergent Thinking Tasks

Abdul Hamid,

Yusoff,

Rahman

et al. 2023

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INTRODUCTION: Different facets of divergent thinking (DT) are associated with connectivity between different cerebral areas. However, the causal interactions between the key DT nodes have yet to be explored. It is hypothesised that with creativity stimulation, changes in effective connectivity among regions will be observed. MATERIALS AND METHODS: By using control (n=26) and experimental (n=24) participants, this study aimed to investigate the effective connectivity between brain areas associated with divergent thinking that accentuate fluency, flexibility, and originality. The experimental participants attended a two-day creativity stimulation, followed by three task-based fMRI sessions for all participants, which included basic use (BU) identification, alternative use (AU) generation and unusual use (UU) determination tasks. Dynamic causal modelling (DCM) was used to determine the most optimal causal model representing the most possible modulatory influence on the connections between medial prefrontal cortices (mPFC), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), and inferior parietal lobule (IPL). RESULTS: The experimental participants scored higher fluency and flexibility than the controls (p<0.05). At neuronal level, the control group showed similar intrinsic connections receiving modulatory influence for AU and UU tasks, while the experimental group preferred a different perturbation of connection between both tasks. These intergroup differences may be caused by different thinking strategies involving semantic and episodic memory retrieval, and integration of remotely associated ideas to construct new combination among the experimental participants. CONCLUSION: Different DT demands may influence the effective connectivity between mPFC, IFG and IPL especially among individuals with higher DT abilities, especially in fluency and flexibility versus originality.

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Influence of Creativity Stimulation on Brain Connectivity during Divergent Thinking Tasks

Abdul Hamid,

Yusoff,

Rahman

et al. 2023

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“…However, the authors point out the role of the object used for the alternate uses task in the generation of responses. This fact may be related to the role of episodic memory, which is involved in divergent creative thinking and which enhances the production of ideas during the alternate uses task depending on the object considered and the personal experiences and profile of the subject [77].…”

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Assessing the Linguistic Creativity Domain of Last-Year Compulsory Secondary School Students

Pont-Niclòs,

Echegoyen-Sanz,

Martín-Ezpeleta

2024

Education Sciences

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The importance of creativity in the training of people gained special relevance with the PISA Tests of the OECD, which, for the first time, evaluated the general creativity of 15-year-old students in 2022. This descriptive and quantitative study focuses on the evaluation of linguistic creativity, using different classical instruments to measure divergent thinking and adding new ones, such as metaphorical capacity. Participants were 454 students in their last year of secondary education from eight Spanish educational centers. Results indicate moderate performance in divergent thinking tasks, with students exhibiting limitations in generating novel metaphors, often resorting to literal responses. Statistically significant differences according to gender were found in metaphor generation and in the alternate uses task. A correlation study reveals significant associations between metaphor generation and divergent thinking tasks. These highlight the differential role of semantic memory and cognitive processes involved in metaphor generation and divergent thinking. Finally, this study underlines the complexities and multicomponent nature of creativity as a first step to develop educational policies and interventions targeting creativity. Overall, the importance of addressing creativity in a transdisciplinary way and training teachers on techniques to channel creativity are highlighted, such as through the design of challenges or writing workshops.

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“…Subsequently, PPI analyses were carried out using a second-level random effects group analysis, employing a one-sample t-test for group comparisons. Both subtraction and functional connectivity analyses were performed using an ROI approach ( Beaty et al, 2015 , Chen et al, 2023 , Pinho et al, 2015 ).…”

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Common brain activation and connectivity patterns supporting the generation of creative uses and creative metaphors

Cited by 10 publications

References 79 publications

Influence of Creativity Stimulation on Brain Connectivity during Divergent Thinking Tasks

Influence of Creativity Stimulation on Brain Connectivity during Divergent Thinking Tasks

Assessing the Linguistic Creativity Domain of Last-Year Compulsory Secondary School Students

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