EEG alpha power and creative ideation

Fink, Andréas; Benedek, Mathias

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.12.002

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“…More recently, researchers have explored the cognitive processes involved in divergent thinking, the ability to generate several novel solutions to open-ended problems. Behavioral (Barr et al, 2014;Silvia, 2012, 2013;Benedek et al, 2014c;Lee and Therriault, 2013;Nusbaum and Silvia, 2011;Nusbaum et al, 2014;Silvia et al, 2013) and neurophysiological (Beaty et al, 2014a,b;Benedek et al, 2014;Fink and Benedek, 2014;Fink et al, 2009;Gonen-Yaacovi et al, 2013) research suggests that higher-order cognitive processes underlie creative cognition, such as controlled memory retrieval, pre-potent response inhibition, fluid intelligence, and working memory capacity. Such processes are hypothesized to support creative thought by providing the executive control needed to manage complex search processes and inhibit salient conceptual information that can interfere with idea generation (Beaty and Silvia, 2012).…”

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The neuroscience of musical improvisation

Beaty

2015

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Researchers have recently begun to examine the neural basis of musical improvisation, one of the most complex forms of creative behavior. The emerging field of improvisation neuroscience has implications not only for the study of artistic expertise, but also for understanding the neural underpinnings of domain-general processes such as motor control and language production. This review synthesizes functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) studies of musical improvisation, including vocal and instrumental improvisation, with samples of jazz pianists, classical musicians, freestyle rap artists, and non-musicians. A network of prefrontal brain regions commonly linked to improvisatory behavior is highlighted, including the pre-supplementary motor area, medial prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal gyrus, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and dorsal premotor cortex. Activation of premotor and lateral prefrontal regions suggests that a seemingly unconstrained behavior may actually benefit from motor planning and cognitive control. Yet activation of cortical midline regions points to a role of spontaneous cognition characteristic of the default network. Together, such results may reflect cooperation between large-scale brain networks associated with cognitive control and spontaneous thought. The improvisation literature is integrated with Pressing's theoretical model, and discussed within the broader context of research on the brain basis of creative cognition.

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Section: Domain-general Creative Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The neuroscience of musical improvisation

Beaty

2015

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…These observations were made in posterior regions, as opposed to our study, in which the increase in this frequency-band was observed over frontal sites. Recent evidence shows that frontal alpha synchronisation is linked to internal and creative thinking (Fink et al, 2009;Fink and Benedek, 2014), which is defined as the generation of original and creative contributions in problem solving and in cognitive processing in general. In their study, Fink et al (2009) elaborated a task where participants had to imagine unusual uses of different objects.…”

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Visual stimuli modulate frontal oscillatory rhythms in a cortically blind patient: Evidence for top-down visual processing

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Gelder

et al. 2017

Clinical Neurophysiology

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“…Thanks to the increasing availability of new neuroscientific methodologies, the topic of creativity has received considerable interest in the neurosciences, with the production of numerous studies investigating the brain activity during different creativity-related tasks and neuroscientific methods (Fink & Benedek 2014). For what concerns methods, because of its low invasiveness and high time resolution, the EEG is the most used technique to investigate mechanisms such as creativity.…”

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The Creative Mind – DRACLE

Folgieri

Dei

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Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Human creativity is not just the result of a cognitive encapsulated process, but is an online process that link together thoughts, emotions and sensory events in a complex fashion. Thanks to this property, that is to the development of mental reflection, we can always (or almost always) create a context in which to give sense to the world. Art and science are clear examples. Scientific research is clearly interested in mechanisms of translating the imagination, the pure thinking into something useful to a community in a social and economic sense. In particular, the contemporary cognitive science, which is slowly abandoning its traditional stand-alone paradigms, is increasingly taking the shape of an open range where it possible to exercise a fruitful crossfertilization between different disciplines (from computer science to psychology, from art to anthropology and mathematics) that more and more speak a similar language. This new frontier is what we call the paradigm of extended cognition. The performance, presented and discussed in this paper, is aimed at artists, scholars and experts interested in the whole world of creativity and the related psychological and neuro-cognitive mechanisms. The paper aims at explaining the possible benefits deriving from the contamination of Art and Science in order to understand how the mind and brain shape our experience through the dynamics of conscious and unconscious creativity mechanisms. We aim to contaminate the traditional academic thinking with the suggestions coming from the world of contemporary art and particularly, the installation aims to introduce a discussion on the critical issue of the creativity mediated by technology and, as a counterpart, the creative mood of technology.

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EEG alpha power and creative ideation

Abstract: Highlights► EEG Alpha activity is sensitive to different creativity-related demands. ► Creativity is associated with alpha increases at frontal and right parietal sites. ► Alpha increases during creative cognition reflect internal processing demands.

Cited by 418 publications

References 133 publications

The neuroscience of musical improvisation

The neuroscience of musical improvisation

Visual stimuli modulate frontal oscillatory rhythms in a cortically blind patient: Evidence for top-down visual processing

The Creative Mind – DRACLE

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