Put on your (fNIRS) thinking cap: Frontopolar activation during augmented state creativity

Tempest, Gavin D.; Radel, Rémi

doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112082

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“…Importantly, our data show that the fMRI correlates of egocentric interference include parts of the mirror neuron system (middle and superior precentral gyri) as well as left frontopolar cortex known to be involved in deductive reasoning 37 . In particular, this latter area was associated with analogical reasoning and relational cognition, two cognitive processes involved in self-other distinction, decentering and inferential process 38 . Moreover, a recent EEG study showed that left frontopolar theta activity is associated with planning performance and successfully generated self-plans pointing to its role in the construction of self-centered cognitive processes 39 .…”

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Patterns of multiple brain network activation in dot perspective task

Montandon

Rodriguez

Herrmann

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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In this functional MRI (fMRI) study on 82 healthy adults using the dot perspective task, inconsistency of perspectives was associated with a significant increase of the mean reaction time and number of errors both in Self and Other conditions. Unlike the Arrow (non-mentalizing), the Avatar (mentalizing) paradigm was characterized by the recruitment of parts of the mentalizing and salience networks. These data provide experimental evidence supporting the fMRI distinction between mentalizing and non-mentalizing stimuli. A widespread activation of classical theory of mind (ToM) areas but also of salience network and decision making areas was observed in the Other compared to Self-conditions. Compared to Self-Consistent, Self-Inconsistent trials were related to increased activation in the lateral occipital cortex, right supramarginal and angular gyrus as well as inferior, superior and middle frontal gyri. Compared to the Other-Consistent, Other-Inconsistent trials yielded strong activation in the lateral occipital cortex, precuneus and superior parietal lobule, middle and superior precentral gyri and left frontal pole. These findings reveal that altercentric interference relies on areas involved in self-other distinction, self-updating and central executive functions. In contrast, egocentric interference needs the activation of the mirror neuron system and deductive reasoning, much less related to pure ToM abilities.

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Patterns of multiple brain network activation in dot perspective task

Montandon

Rodriguez

Herrmann

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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“…The Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB), developed by Batey (2007), has emerged as one of the more popular self-report tools to measure everyday creativity. It is cited and discussed in many major reviews of self-report tools in creativity research (Kaufman, 2019;Puryear et al, 2017;Said-Metwaly et al, 2017;Silvia et al, 2012) and has been used in research on wide-ranging topics in creativity studies (e.g., Tempest & Radel, 2019;West & Somer, 2020). To date, however, the BICB has yet to receive a detailed psychometric evaluation.…”

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Measuring everyday creativity: A Rasch model analysis of the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB) scale

Silvia

Rodriguez-Boerwinkle

Beaty

et al. 2021

Thinking Skills and Creativity

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Research on everyday creativity-the "little c" creative activities people do in their everyday lives-commonly uses self-report scales to assess people's engagement in different activities. The present research presents a detailed psychometric analysis of the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB), a 34-item yes/no checklist of common creative activities that has become one of the most popular self-report measures of everyday creative behaviors. Based on a sample of 2,359 adults, the reliability, dimensionality, item fit, item difficulty, and test information were evaluated from a Rasch model perspective. Overall, the BICB shows good evidence for score reliability and appears essentially unidimensional; a small cluster of misfitting and locally dependent items were flagged for impairing unidimensionality. The items' difficulty level was generally moderate and suitable for the scale's intended populations and purposes. Differential item functioning (DIF) based on gender and age, estimated via Rasch tree recursive partitioning methods, found notable gender-based DIF (generally reflecting culturally gendered qualities of some creative activities) but little age-based DIF. Taken together, the BICB has many psychometric strengths. Some opportunities for future scale refinement are discussed.

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“…First, because fNIRS data contain various kinds of noise, we performed preprocessing using open POTATo (Yamada et al ., 2012). The preprocessing steps are as follows: 1) short distance processing (opSSR) was done to remove skin blood flow changes; 2) bandpass filtering (0.01-0.5 Hz) using an FFT (Band Filter) was performed (Tempest and Radel, 2019); and 3) the overall data for each participant was corrected with Rest-1 as baseline and all times were calculated into Z-scores for each participant (Ono, 2019). After preprocessing, the average value for 30 seconds during the task was used as the representative value for paired t-tests.…”

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Brain Activity During Constraint Relaxation in the Insight Problem-Solving Process: An fNIRS Study

Ohkuma

Kurihara

Takahashi

et al. 2022

Preprint

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People solve insight problems that they encounter daily with a sudden sense of ‘aha!’ to reach a solution. Chunk decomposition, which decomposes the factors of the problem, and constraint relaxation, which manipulates filters to organize the information necessary to solve the problem, are important in insight problem-solving. Although there have been many studies on brain activity during chunk decomposition, few have examined brain activity during constraint relaxation. Particularly, no study has observed the changes over time due to constraint relaxation during insight problem-solving. This study used a slot machine task as an insight problem to measure brain activity using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), and eye movements to estimate constraint relaxation. The results showed that the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and right superior temporal gyrus (STG) were activated over time in participants in whom constraint relaxation was induced. The right inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) of participants who were able to solve the insight problem after constraint relaxation was also activated. The analysis of brain activity during constraint relaxation in insight problem-solving may be useful for advancing research on the ‘aha!’ phenomenon and creativity.

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Put on your (fNIRS) thinking cap: Frontopolar activation during augmented state creativity

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Patterns of multiple brain network activation in dot perspective task

Patterns of multiple brain network activation in dot perspective task

Measuring everyday creativity: A Rasch model analysis of the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB) scale

Brain Activity During Constraint Relaxation in the Insight Problem-Solving Process: An fNIRS Study

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