The structure of creative cognition in the human brain

Jung, Rex E.

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00330

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“…The variability in previous studies is partially due to the fact that creativity is a multifactorial process [Dietrich, 2004], and may manifest in a number of ways—as convergent or divergent thinking [Fink, et al 2007], deliberate analytical problem solving or sudden insight [Kounios and Beeman, 2014]. This has led to a broad array of experimental paradigms that have generated a diverse set of neuropsychological theories [Jung et al, 2013]. …”

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Brain activity and connectivity during poetry composition: Toward a multidimensional model of the creative process

Liu

Erkkinen

Healey

et al. 2015

Human Brain Mapping

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Creativity, a multifaceted construct, can be studied in various ways, for example, investigating phases of the creative process, quality of the creative product, or the impact of expertise. Previous neuroimaging studies have assessed these individually. Believing that each of these interacting features must be examined simultaneously to develop a comprehensive understanding of creative behavior, we examined poetry composition, assessing process, product, and expertise in a single experiment. Distinct activation patterns were associated with generation and revision, two major phases of the creative process. Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) was active during both phases, yet responses in dorsolateral prefrontal and parietal executive systems (DLPFC/IPS) were phase‐dependent, indicating that while motivation remains unchanged, cognitive control is attenuated during generation and re‐engaged during revision. Experts showed significantly stronger deactivation of DLPFC/IPS during generation, suggesting that they may more effectively suspend cognitive control. Importantly however, similar overall patterns were observed in both groups, indicating the same cognitive resources are available to experts and novices alike. Quality of poetry, assessed by an independent panel, was associated with divergent connectivity patterns in experts and novices, centered upon MPFC (for technical facility) and DLPFC/IPS (for innovation), suggesting a mechanism by which experts produce higher quality poetry. Crucially, each of these three key features can be understood in the context of a single neurocognitive model characterized by dynamic interactions between medial prefrontal areas regulating motivation, dorsolateral prefrontal, and parietal areas regulating cognitive control and the association of these regions with language, sensorimotor, limbic, and subcortical areas distributed throughout the brain. Hum Brain Mapp 36:3351–3372, 2015. © 2015 The Authors. Human Brain Mapping Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc..

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Brain activity and connectivity during poetry composition: Toward a multidimensional model of the creative process

Liu

Erkkinen

Healey

et al. 2015

Human Brain Mapping

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“…It is characterized by the formation of something that is both novel and useful (Sternberg and Lubart, 1993;Jung et al, 2013). Throughout the history of human civilization, there have been many creative individuals, such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, Sir Isaac Newton, or Charles Dickens, who made outstanding contributions to society.…”

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Brain structure links trait creativity to openness to experience

Li¹,

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Huang³

et al. 2014

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Creativity is crucial to the progression of human civilization and has led to important scientific discoveries. Especially, individuals are more likely to have scientific discoveries if they possess certain personality traits of creativity (trait creativity), including imagination, curiosity, challenge and risk-taking. This study used voxel-based morphometry to identify the brain regions underlying individual differences in trait creativity, as measured by the Williams creativity aptitude test, in a large sample (n ¼ 246). We found that creative individuals had higher gray matter volume in the right posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG), which might be related to semantic processing during novelty seeking (e.g. novel association, conceptual integration and metaphor understanding). More importantly, although basic personality factors such as openness to experience, extroversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness (as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory) all contributed to trait creativity, only openness to experience mediated the association between the right pMTG volume and trait creativity. Taken together, our results suggest that the basic personality trait of openness might play an important role in shaping an individuals trait creativity.

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“…The observed commonality across these spheres is that spontaneous and open-ended production of ideas/responses (idea generation), creative or otherwise, leads to the engagement of parts of the default mode network (DMN), particularly in the medial aspects of the prefrontal and frontopolar cortex. When constraints of ensuring relevance or appropriateness are applied to the generated responses (idea selection) in order to be deemed truly creative, semantic and cognitive control brain networks are activated, particularly lateral aspects of the prefrontal and frontopolar cortex (Abraham, 2014;Abraham et al, 2012;Beaty, Benedek, Barry Kaufman, and Silvia, 2015;Jung, Mead, Carrasco, and Flores, 2013;Limb and Braun, 2008).…”

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The imaginative mind

Abraham

2016

Human Brain Mapping

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The astounding capacity for the human imagination to be engaged across a wide range of contexts is limitless and fundamental to our day‐to‐day experiences. Although processes of imagination are central to human psychological function, they rarely occupy center stage in academic discourse or empirical study within psychological and neuroscientific realms. The aim of this paper is to tackle this imbalance by drawing together the multitudinous facets of imagination within a common framework. The processes fall into one of five categories depending on whether they are characterized as involving perceptual/motor related mental imagery, intentionality or recollective processing, novel combinatorial or generative processing, exceptional phenomenology in the aesthetic response, or altered psychological states which range from commonplace to dysfunctional. These proposed categories are defined on the basis of theoretical ideas from philosophy as well as empirical evidence from neuroscience. By synthesizing the findings across these domains of imagination, this novel five‐part or quinquepartite classification of the human imagination aids in systematizing, and thereby abets, our understanding of the workings and neural foundations of the human imagination. It would serve as a blueprint to direct further advances in the field of imagination while also promoting crosstalk with reference to stimulus‐oriented facets of information processing. A biologically and ecologically valid psychology is one that seeks to explain fundamental aspects of human nature. Given the ubiquitous nature of the imaginative operations in our daily lives, there can be little doubt that these quintessential aspects of the mind should be central to the discussion. Hum Brain Mapp 37:4197–4211, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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The structure of creative cognition in the human brain

Cited by 330 publications

References 108 publications

Brain activity and connectivity during poetry composition: Toward a multidimensional model of the creative process

Brain activity and connectivity during poetry composition: Toward a multidimensional model of the creative process

Brain structure links trait creativity to openness to experience

The imaginative mind

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