Exploring the neural correlates of visual creativity

Abstract

Although creativity has been called the most important of all human resources, its neural basis is still unclear. In the current study, we used fMRI to measure neural activity in participants solving a visuospatial creativity problem that involves divergent thinking and has been considered a canonical right hemisphere task. As hypothesized, both the visual creativity task and the control task as compared to rest activated a variety of areas including the posterior parietal cortex bilaterally and motor regions, which are known to be involved in visuospatial rotation of objects. However, directly comparing the two tasks indicated that the creative task more strongly activated left hemisphere regions including the posterior parietal cortex, the premotor cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the medial PFC. These results demonstrate that even in a task that is specialized to the right hemisphere, robust parallel activity in the left hemisphere supports creative processing. Furthermore, the results support the notion that higher motor planning may be a general component of creative improvisation and that such goal-directed planning of novel solutions may be organized top-down by the left DLPFC and by working memory processing in the medial prefrontal cortex.

Interações Entre Memória Operacional E Criatividade: Revisão Sistemática

“…Consideramos o ranking para os últimos cinco anos das publicações, com foco nas áreas de psicologia ou neurociência para periódicos com diferentes áreas de abordagem. Foi obtido o seguinte resultado: 13 artigos foram publicados em periódicos Q1 Dreu, Nijstad, Baas, Wolsink, & Roskes, 2012;Aziz-Zadeh, Liew, & Dandekar, 2012;Lin & Lien, 2013;Lee & Therriault, 2013;Benedek, Jauk, Sommer, Arendasy, & Neubauer, 2014;Yeh, Lai, Lin, Lin, & Sun, 2015;Furley & Memmert, 2015;Hao, Yuan, Cheng, Eang, & Runco, 2015;Tan, Zou, Chen, & Luo, 2015). Houve apenas um artigo em Q2 (Razumnikova, 2007) e outro que foi classificado como Q2 pela maior parte dos anos, mas que caiu para Q3 em 2014 (Lavric, Forstmeier, & Rippon, 2000).…”

“…O tópico foi retomado em 2007 com Razumnikova e teve seu maior destaque nos últimos cinco anos, com duas publicações em 2011 , três em 2012 Aziz-Zadeh, Liew & Dandekar, 2012;, duas em 2013 (Lin & Lien, 2013;Lee & Therriault, 2013), duas em 2014 Benedek et al, 2014) e quatro em 2015 (Yeh et al, 2015;Furley & Memmert, 2015;Hao et al, 2015;Tan et al, 2015). Ressaltamos que, até a data em que a busca havia sido realizada, nenhum artigo com os descritores "working memory" e "creativy" com publicação em 2016 foi encontrado.…”

“…A origem dos trabalhos também é bastante diversa, sendo três trabalhos do continente norteamericano (Lavric, Forstmeier, & Rippon, 2000;Aziz-Zadeh, Liew, & Dandekar, 2012;Lee & Therriault, 2013), seis do continente asiático Lin & Lien, 2013;Yeh et al, 2015;Hao et al, 2015;Tan et al, 2015), cinco do continente europeu Abraham, Thybusch et al, 2014;Benedek et al, 2014;Furley& Memmert, 2015) e um da Eurásia (Razumnikova, 2007).…”

“…As exceções foram jogadores de futebol (Furley & Memmert, 2015), arquitetos ou estudantes de arquitetura (Aziz-Zadeh, Liew, & Dandekar, 2012), violoncelistas (no terceiro experimento e dois não deixam claro tal questão Benedek et al, 2014). Os estudos tiveram participantes com média etária entre 18,5 a 24,14 anos.…”

Scholarships vs. Training for Happiness Gained from Education in Creativity: An Analytical Model

“…The purpose of the present study was to develop a dynamic model capable of accounting for the two main determinants of creativity (i.e., divergent and convergent thinking), and to use the model to compare the impacts of two common educational policies (i.e., offering scholarships vs. curriculum development) on the happiness gained from creativity in the healthy general population. In this research, I will not attempt to account for gender differences (Abraham et al, 2014;Tarasova et al, 2010b; or specific tasks such as musical improvisation (Berkowitz & Ansari, 2010), freestyle rap (Liu et al, 2012), verbal creativity (Benedek et al, 2014a;Green et al, 2012;Rodionov, 2013;Vartanian, 2012;Zhu et al, 2013), creative writing (Shah et al, 2013), or figural (e.g., artistic) creativity (Aziz-Zadeh et al, 2013;Duff et al, 2013;Gansler et al, 2011;Heilman & Acosta, 2013;Huang et al, 2013). Moreover, I will not consider creativity as a therapy for unhealthy people who are affected by autism, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy (Schott, 2012), psychopathology (Jung et al, 2010a, brain lesions (Abraham et al, 2012aShamay-Tsoory et al, 2011), bipolar disorder (Ricciardiello & Fornaro, 2013), schizophrenic thoughts (Fink et al, 2014), mood disorders or dementia (De Souza et al, 2010), or brain lesions (Barbey et al, 2013).…”