Functional neuroimaging of visual creativity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Pidgeon, Laura M.; Grealy, Madeleine; Duffy, Alex H. B.; Hay, Laura; McTeague, Chris; Vuletic, Tijana; Coyle, Damien; Gilbert, Sam J.

doi:10.1002/brb3.540

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“…Visual mental imagery, defined as an experience of sensory information without a direct external stimulus, relies heavily on the visual cortex [54,55]. A recent meta-analysis found that, in contrast to divergent thinking, visual mental imagery was accompanied with decreased alpha, compared to baseline, although alpha power in high-creative groups tended to be greater than for low-creative groups, despite the task-related decreases in both groups [56]. Alpha power was also found to decrease in parietal and occipital regions when performing the Picture Completion Task, indicating elevated visual processing demands [57].…”

Section: Creativity As Visual Mental Imagerymentioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity comes in waves: an EEG-focused exploration of the creative brain

Stevens

Zabelina

2019

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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Electroencephalographic (EEG) methodology in creativity research has been remarkably fruitful, establishing the potential of EEG to illuminate complex and transient creativity-related neural processes. Here we synthesize recent advances in the field, highlighting empirical work on creativity as divergent thinking, remote associations, musical creativity, and visual imagery. There is a general consensus that alpha-band activity plays a key role in the creative process, though other frequency bands, such as theta and gamma also serve critical functions. We further discuss evidence for electrical stimulation (tDCS and tACS) as a tool for improvements in creative thinking. EEG's high temporal resolution is supremely suitable for studying creative cognition, and studies continuing to yield new and exciting evidence regarding the local and global neural processes underlying creativity.

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Section: Creativity As Visual Mental Imagerymentioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity comes in waves: an EEG-focused exploration of the creative brain

Stevens

Zabelina

2019

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

106

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“…Results from neurosciencebased design studies show consistent higher activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of design tasks and ill-structured problems (Alexiou et al, 2009), and insight (Kounios and Beeman 2014, Beeman et al, 2004, recruiting a more extensive network of brain areas than problem solving (Alexiou et al, 2009, Kounios andBeeman 2014). Neuroimaging studies are more advanced in creative cognition (Martindale, 1999;Vartanian and Goel, 2005), and visual creativity and the arts (Pidgeon et al, 2016), although no consensus has been found due to the different nature of the tasks across studies. This study reported in this paper is part of an ongoing research to elucidate design neurocognition, using it to distinguish design from problem-solving and to determine differences in brain behaviour when design is carried out in different domains.…”

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Comparing the Design Neurocognition of Mechanical Engineers and Architects: A Study of the Effect of Designer’s Domain

Vieira

Gero

Delmoral

et al. 2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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New tools from neuroscience allow design researchers to explore design neurocognition. By taking the advantage of EEG's temporal resolution we give up spatial resolution to focus on the performance of time-related design tasks. This paper presents results from an experiment using EEG to measure brain activation to study mechanical engineers and architects to compare their design neurocognition. In this study, we adopted and extended the tasks described in a previous fMRI study of design neurocognition reported in the literature. The block experiment consists of a sequence of 3 tasks: problem solving, basic design and open design using a physical interface. The block is preceded by a familiarizing pre-task using the physical interface and then extended to a fourth task using free-hand sketching. Brainwaves were collected from both mechanical engineers and architects. Results comparing 36 mechanical engineers and architects while designing were produced. These results indicate design cognition differences between the two domains in task-related power between the problem-solving task and the design tasks, in temporal resolution and transformed power.

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“…On the other hand, relevant creativity literature also clearly indicates that creativity and its neural underpinnings are specific to a particular domain (Baer, 1998;Boccia et al, 2015). For instance, studies in the visual creativity domain (e.g., Aziz-Zadeh, Liew, & Dandekar, 2013;Pidgeon et al, 2016;Rominger et al, 2018) provide consistent evidence of the involvement of brain networks supporting visuospatial processes and motor related imagery. In a similar vein, in investigating brain activity during musical improvisation in jazz pianists, Limb and Braun (2008) found among others a widespread activation of brain regions supporting sensorimotor functions.…”

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Brain and soccer: Functional patterns of brain activity during the generation of creative moves in real soccer decision‐making situations

Fink

Bay

Koschutnig

et al. 2018

Human Brain Mapping

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This fMRI study investigated brain activity while soccer players were imagining creative moves in real soccer decision‐making situations. After presenting brief video clips of a soccer scene, participants had to imagine themselves as the acting player and think either of a creative or obvious move that might lead to a goal. Findings revealed stronger activation during trials in which the generation of obvious moves was required, relative to trials requiring creative moves. The reversed contrast (creative > obvious) showed no significant effects. Activations were mainly left‐lateralized, primarily involving the cuneus, middle temporal gyrus, and the rolandic operculum, which are known to support the processing of multimodal input from different sensory, motor and perceptual sources. Interestingly, more creative solutions in the soccer task were associated with smaller contrast values for the activation difference between obvious and creative trials, or even with more activation in the latter. Furthermore, higher trait creative potential (as assessed by a figural creativity test) was associated with stronger activation differences between both conditions. These findings suggest that with increasing soccer‐specific creative task performance, the processing of the manifold information provided by the soccer scenario becomes increasingly important, while in individuals with higher trait creative potential these processes were recruited to a minor degree. This study showed that soccer‐specific creativity tasks modulate activation levels in a network of regions supporting various cognitive functions such as semantic information processing, visual and motor imagery, and the processing and integration of sensorimotor and somatosensory information.

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Functional neuroimaging of visual creativity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Cited by 100 publications

References 145 publications

Creativity comes in waves: an EEG-focused exploration of the creative brain

Creativity comes in waves: an EEG-focused exploration of the creative brain

Comparing the Design Neurocognition of Mechanical Engineers and Architects: A Study of the Effect of Designer’s Domain

Brain and soccer: Functional patterns of brain activity during the generation of creative moves in real soccer decision‐making situations

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