The study of the brain’s organization of creativity: I. Development of a psychological test

Piecing together the neuroscience of creativity: Review of Creativity and the brain.

“…For example, Martindale has examined neural mechanisms of artistic experience (1999a) and physiological aspects of creative people (1999b), and with his colleagues he has found that creative people have faster reaction times on unambiguous tasks and lower reaction times on ambiguous tasks (Kwiatkowski, Vartanian, & Martindale, 1999). Bekhtereva, Starchenko, and colleagues have conducted numerous positron emission tomography studies of creative thinking (e.g., Bekhtereva, Dan'ko, & Starchenko, 2001; Bekhtereva, Starchenko, & Klyucharev, 2000; Starchenko, Bekhtereva, & Pakhomov, 2003; Starchenko, Vorob'ev, & Klyucharev, 2000); discussing any of this work would have lent valuable insight.…”

Neurobiology of Exceptionality

“…The final task (W: Word memorisation) consisted of simply memorizing a list of words in a mechanical fashion, a task that essentially comprised no creativity (Starchenko, Vorob'ev, Kliucharev, Bekhtereva, & Medevedev, 2000). Four tasks of varying creative content were specifically developed for EEG and PET analysis.…”

The usefulness of Psychophysiology in the maintenance of cognitive life

“…We have been working on this problem, trying to specify, to crystallize various aspects in our psychophysiological investigations (Bechtereva et al, , 2001(Bechtereva et al, , 2004Starchenko et al, 2000). These studies have provided us with minimodels of the brain's means for carrying out creative tasks.…”