Comparison of the effects of the subjective complexity and verbal creativity on EEG spectral power parameters

Danko, S. G.; Shemyakina, N. V.; Nagornova, Zh. V.; Starchenko, M. G.

doi:10.1134/s0362119709030153

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“…Also other studies confirmed that increased γ oscillations are closely associated with insight (Smith and Kounios, 1996;Jung-Beeman et al, 2004;Bowden et al, 2005;Kounios et al, 2008;Sandkuhler and Bhattacharya, 2008;Danko et al, 2009;Dietrich and Kanso, 2010) and conscious awareness related to attentional focus in general (Tononi and Edelman, 1998;Baars, 2002;Tononi, 2004;Uhlhaas and Singer, 2010). In this context, insight corresponds to contextual awareness, emergence of new perspectives, and creative solutions reflected in largescale information integration, and its typical neural correlate is represented by increased synchrony in the γ range (Bhattacharya and Petsche, 2002;Dietrich and Kanso, 2010).…”

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Consciousness, awareness of insight and neural mechanisms of schizophrenia

Touskova

Bob²

2015

Reviews in the Neurosciences

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AbstractAccording to recent research, disturbances of self-awareness and conscious experience have a critical role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, and in this context, schizophrenia is currently understood as a disorder characterized by distortions of acts of awareness, self-consciousness, and self-monitoring. Together, these studies suggest that the processes of disrupted awareness and conscious disintegration in schizophrenia might be related and represented by similar disruptions on the brain level, which, in principle, could be explained by various levels of disturbed connectivity and information disintegration that may negatively affect usual patterns of synchronous activity constituting adaptive integrative functions of consciousness. On the other hand, mental integration based on self-awareness and insight may significantly increase information integration and directly influence neural mechanisms underlying basic pathophysiological processes in schizophrenia.

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Consciousness, awareness of insight and neural mechanisms of schizophrenia

Touskova

Bob²

2015

Reviews in the Neurosciences

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“…Still, even with this correlation with verbal intelligence, similar results have been reported. Danko, Shemyakina, Nagornova and Starchenko (2009), for instance, asked the participants to complete Russian proverbs creatively. In the study ERS was recorded in the upper beta wave.…”

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The Neuroscience of Divergent Thinking

Runco

Yörük

2014

Act Nerv Super

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Creativity plays a role in innovation, development, and health. Recent research has used neuroscientific methods to study originality, novelty, insight, divergent thinking, and other processes related to creative mental activity. Findings indicate that both hemispheres are involved in divergent thinking, which is accompanied by both event-related increases and decreases in the neural activation. Divergent thinking seems to be associated with high neural activation in the central, temporal, and parietal regions, indications of semantic processing and re-combination of semantically related information. Most of the research in this area has been done in the last 10 years, and very likely refining and standardizing DT testing and scoring will lead to additional insights about creativity.

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“…Such a mechanism might also explain the finding of a positive association between alpha brain waves and verbal creativity (Fink, Grabner, Benedek, & Neubauer, 2006;Jausovec, 2000;Martindale & Hasenfus, 1978;Martindale & Hines, 1975). However, not all EEG studies find such an association (Danko, Shemyakina, Nagornova, & Starchenko, 2009;Molle, Marshall, Wolf, Fehm, & Born, 1999;Shemyakina & Danko, 2007) and the conditions under which it appears remain to be elucidated (Dietrich & Kanso, 2010).…”

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Remote Associates Test and Alpha Brain Waves

Haarmann¹,

George²,

Smaliy³

et al. 2012

The Journal of Problem Solving

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Abstract:Previous studies found that performance on the remote associates test (RAT) improves after a period of incubation and that increased alpha brain waves over the right posterior brain predict the emergence of RAT insight solutions. We report an experiment that tested whether increased alpha brain waves during incubation improve RAT performance. Participants received two blocks of RAT items (RAT1 and RAT2), with the second block consisting of items that were not solved during the first block. Participants were randomly assigned to three groups, which were matched for their number of RAT1 solutions. Participants in an alpha-up neurofeedback group aimed to increase their alpha brain waves over the right posterior brain in between the two blocks, whereas participants in an alpha-down neurofeedback group aimed to decrease these same brain waves. A third group of participants did not perform neurofeedback and proceeded immediately from the first to the second block of RAT items. We found evidence for more RAT2 solutions in participants who interrupted their RAT performance with neurofeedback, especially in ones who showed high alpha brain waves during neurofeedback. These results are consistent with the notion that an alert but relaxed mental state, indexed by alpha brain waves, may aid the read out of an implicitly activated memory network of weak associates.

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Comparison of the effects of the subjective complexity and verbal creativity on EEG spectral power parameters

Cited by 34 publications

References 3 publications

Consciousness, awareness of insight and neural mechanisms of schizophrenia

Consciousness, awareness of insight and neural mechanisms of schizophrenia

The Neuroscience of Divergent Thinking

Remote Associates Test and Alpha Brain Waves

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