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Trends in Cognitive Sciences Feb 2016Creative thinking is central to the arts, sciences, and everyday life. How does the brain produce creative thought? A series of recently published papers has begun to... (Review)
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Creative thinking is central to the arts, sciences, and everyday life. How does the brain produce creative thought? A series of recently published papers has begun to provide insight into this question, reporting a strikingly similar pattern of brain activity and connectivity across a range of creative tasks and domains, from divergent thinking to poetry composition to musical improvisation. This research suggests that creative thought involves dynamic interactions of large-scale brain systems, with the most compelling finding being that the default and executive control networks, which can show an antagonistic relation, tend to cooperate during creative cognition and artistic performance. These findings have implications for understanding how brain networks interact to support complex cognitive processes, particularly those involving goal-directed, self-generated thought.
Topics: Brain; Cognition; Creativity; Humans; Neural Pathways; Thinking
PubMed: 26553223
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.10.004 -
Epilepsy & Behavior : E&B Apr 2016In this paper, we review in brief the development of ideas that over time have tried to explain why some individuals are more creative than others and what may be the... (Review)
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In this paper, we review in brief the development of ideas that over time have tried to explain why some individuals are more creative than others and what may be the neurobiological links underlying artistic creativity. We note associations with another unique human idea, that of genius. In particular, we discuss frontotemporal dementia and bipolar, cyclothymic mood disorder as clinical conditions that are helping to unravel the underlying neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of human creativity. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled "Epilepsy, Art, and Creativity".
Topics: Bipolar Disorder; Creativity; Dementia; Frontal Lobe; Humans; Neuropsychiatry
PubMed: 26876274
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.12.050 -
Ugeskrift For Laeger Aug 2018This review provides a brief overview of key historical, conceptual and empirical aspects of the link between creativity and psychosis. The genius and his or her... (Review)
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This review provides a brief overview of key historical, conceptual and empirical aspects of the link between creativity and psychosis. The genius and his or her tendency to madness constitute the historical backbone of this link, although ambiguous interpretations and substantial conceptual change characterise this mad genius hypothesis. Some empirical findings show high levels of creativity among first-degree relatives of patients with psychotic illness. For schizophrenia, this could be seen as support of a creative potential in premorbid traits, such as self-disorders and disturbed common sense.
Topics: Creativity; Greece, Ancient; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; History, Ancient; Humans; Psychotic Disorders; Schizophrenic Psychology
PubMed: 30070626
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Soins; La Revue de Reference Infirmiere Nov 2021
Topics: Creativity; Humans; Work
PubMed: 34838205
DOI: 10.1016/j.soin.2021.10.003 -
Science (New York, N.Y.) Nov 2022The borderland between wakefulness and sleep promotes creativity.
The borderland between wakefulness and sleep promotes creativity.
Topics: Creativity; Sleep; Wakefulness; Humans; Psychological Tests; Social Sciences
PubMed: 36356128
DOI: 10.1126/science.ade3129 -
Current Biology : CB Jan 2015
Topics: Creativity; Humans; Play and Playthings
PubMed: 25562292
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.009 -
Schizophrenia Bulletin Nov 2014
Topics: Aged; Creativity; Female; Humans; Psychotic Disorders; Schizophrenic Psychology
PubMed: 24803526
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbu063 -
Studies in History and Philosophy of... Aug 2023This paper revisits the standard definition of scientific creativity in the contemporary philosophical literature. The standard definition of creativity says that there...
This paper revisits the standard definition of scientific creativity in the contemporary philosophical literature. The standard definition of creativity says that there are two necessary, and jointly sufficient, conditions for creativity, novelty and value. This paper proposes to characterize the value condition of creativity in terms of "pursuitworthiness". The notion of pursuitworthiness, adopted from the recent debate on scientific pursuit in philosophy of science, refers to a form of prospective epistemic worth. It indicates that a certain object (such as a scientific hypothesis) is promising or has the potential to be epistemically fertile in the future, if further investigated. To support the claim that creative scientific instances are, qua creative, valuable in the sense of pursuitworthy, three examples of creative hypotheses taken from the history of the geosciences are introduced: MacCulloch's continuity hypothesis in mid-19th-century geology, Baron et al.'s phylogenetic hypothesis in contemporary paleontology, and the widely discussed Anthropocene hypothesis.
Topics: Phylogeny; Prospective Studies; Creativity; Philosophy; Paleontology
PubMed: 37356271
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.05.003 -
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Jun 2022Creativity is associated with finding novel, surprising, and useful solutions. We argue that creative cognitive processes, divergent thinking, abstraction, and... (Review)
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Creativity is associated with finding novel, surprising, and useful solutions. We argue that creative cognitive processes, divergent thinking, abstraction, and improvisation are constructed on different novelty-based processes. The prefrontal cortex plays a role in creative ideation by providing a control mechanism. Moreover, thinking about novel solutions activates the distant or loosely connected neurons of a semantic network that involves the hippocampus. Novelty can also be interpreted as different combinations of earlier learned processes, such as the motor sequencing mechanism of the basal ganglia. In addition, the cerebellum is responsible for the precise control of movements, which is particularly important in improvisation. Our neurocomputational perspective is based on three creative processes centered on novelty seeking, subserved by the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum, basal ganglia, and dopamine. The algorithmic implementation of our model would enable us to describe commonalities and differences between these creative processes based on the proposed neural circuitry. Given that most previous studies have mainly provided theoretical and conceptual models of creativity, this article presents the first brain-inspired neural network model of creative cognition.
Topics: Brain; Brain Mapping; Cognition; Creativity; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Thinking
PubMed: 35430189
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104656 -
PeerJ 2022Previous work suggests that unexpected and surprising experiences (., living in another culture or looking at surreal images) promotes creative thinking. This targeted... (Review)
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Previous work suggests that unexpected and surprising experiences (., living in another culture or looking at surreal images) promotes creative thinking. This targeted literature review examines whether the inherent cognitive disruption associated with experiencing the seemingly impossible has a similar effect. Correlational and experimental research across six domains (entertainment magic, fantasy play, virtual reality and computer gaming, dreaming, science fiction/fantasy, and anomalous experiences) provided consistent support for the hypothesis. In addition, anecdotal evidence illustrated the possible impact that the creative output associated with each of these areas may have had on technology, science, and the arts. It is argued that impossible experiences are an important driver of creative thinking, thus accounting for reports of such experiences across the lifespan and throughout history. The theoretical and practical implications of this work are discussed, along with recommendations for future research.
Topics: Creativity; Fantasy; Technology; Video Games
PubMed: 35880216
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13755