Generating original ideas: The neural underpinning of originality

Mayseless, Naama; Eran, Ayelet; Shamay‐Tsoory, Simone G.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.030

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“…This pattern has been reported in studies of both domain-general creativity [26, 32–33] and various domains of artistic performance, such as music [35], literature [34], and visual art [27]. Here, we describe a framework to account for the interplay of the default and control networks underlying creative thought processes.…”

Section: Brain Network and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 61%

“…Notably, however, our framework does not incorporate such evolutionary mechanisms. Below, we discuss this model in the context of recent research on both domain-general [26, 32–33] and domain-specific [27, 34–35] creative thought processes.…”

Section: Default and Executive Control Network Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using a divergent thinking task paradigm similar to the one described above [26], a recent study found that the creative quality of divergent thinking responses, assessed via trained raters, predicted increased functional coupling of the ventral ACC and the left angular gyrus, regions involved in cognitive control and self-generated thought, respectively [32]. In a similar vein, another study employed a verb generation task requiring the production of semantically distant verbs in response to a series of presented nouns [33].…”

Section: Brain Network Interaction During Domain-general Creative Cogmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

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Silvia

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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 relationship, actually 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.

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Section: Brain Network and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Default and Executive Control Network Dynamicsmentioning

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Section: Brain Network Interaction During Domain-general Creative Cogmentioning

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Silvia

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“…In an fMRI study of divergent thinking, Beaty et al (2015) found increased functional connectivity between regions of the default (PCC), control (DLPFC), and salience (insula) networks across the task duration. Other research using verbal creativity tasks has further demonstrated interactions among regions within these networks (e.g., Green et al, 2015; Mayseless et al, 2015). Studies of artistic performance have also reported co-activation of regions with the default and control networks, including musical improvisation (Pinho et al, 2016), visual art (Ellamil et al, 2012), and poetry production (Liu et al, 2015).…”

Section: Neurocognitive Mechanisms Supporting Creative Idea Productionmentioning

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Creative constraints: Brain activity and network dynamics underlying semantic interference during idea production

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Functional neuroimaging research has recently revealed brain network interactions during performance on creative thinking tasks—particularly among regions of the default and executive control networks—but the cognitive mechanisms related to these interactions remain poorly understood. Here we test the hypothesis that the executive control network can interact with the default network to inhibit salient conceptual knowledge (i.e., pre-potent responses) elicited from memory during creative idea production. Participants studied common noun-verb pairs and were given a cued-recall test with corrective feedback to strengthen the paired association in memory. They then completed a verb generation task that presented either a previously studied noun (high-constraint) or an unstudied noun (low-constraint), and were asked to “think creatively” while searching for a novel verb to relate to the presented noun. Latent Semantic Analysis of verbal responses showed decreased semantic distance values in the high-constraint (i.e., interference) condition, which corresponded to increased neural activity within regions of the default (posterior cingulate cortex and bilateral angular gyri), salience (right anterior insula), and executive control (left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) networks. Independent component analysis of intrinsic functional connectivity networks extended this finding by revealing differential interactions among these large-scale networks across the task conditions. The results suggest that interactions between the default and executive control networks underlie response inhibition during constrained idea production, providing insight into specific neurocognitive mechanisms supporting creative cognition.

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“…However, tasks that involve creativity may involve both “divergent” thinking (spontaneous and free-ranging) and “convergent” thinking (control and evaluation) at the same time23. Thus, one hypothesis is that creativity involves these two networks working together24. Support for this idea comes from studies using different tasks which include a visual creative task122, mind wandering25, narrative speech comprehension26, autobiographical planning27, insight problem solving2829, and a “fluid” analogy task30.…”

Section: Brain Network For Creativitymentioning

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Brain networks for visual creativity: a functional connectivity study of planning a visual artwork

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Bacci

Parrott

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Throughout recorded history, and across cultures, humans have made visual art. In recent years, the neural bases of creativity, including artistic creativity, have become a topic of interest. In this study we investigated the neural bases of the visual creative process with both professional artists and a group of control participants. We tested the idea that creativity (planning an artwork) would influence the functional connectivity between regions involved in the default mode network (DMN), implicated in divergent thinking and generating novel ideas, and the executive control network (EN), implicated in evaluating and selecting ideas. We measured functional connectivity with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) during three different conditions: rest, visual imagery of the alphabet and planning an artwork to be executed immediately after the scanning session. Consistent with our hypothesis, we found stronger connectivity between areas of the DMN and EN during the creative task, and this difference was enhanced in professional artists. These findings suggest that creativity involves an expert balance of two brain networks typically viewed as being in opposition.

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Generating original ideas: The neural underpinning of originality

Cited by 107 publications

References 70 publications

Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

Creative constraints: Brain activity and network dynamics underlying semantic interference during idea production

Brain networks for visual creativity: a functional connectivity study of planning a visual artwork

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