Resting-state brain oscillations predict trait-like cognitive styles

Exploratory fNIRS Assessment of Differences in Activation in Virtual Reality Visual Self-Expression Including With a Fragrance Stimulus

“…As found in studies on musical improvization (Erickson et al, 2018;Limb & Braun, 2008), the findings highlight the role of reduced PFC load in creative expression. The facilitated support of the art therapist providing the guiding script potentially enabled participants to let go of conscious cognitive effort and likely move into a more intuitive visual self-expressive mode.…”

“…In studies of approaches to creative problem solving, analytical problem solvers were found to have higher frontal cortex activity while insightful problem solvers had higher temporal and parietal lobe activation (Erickson et al, 2018;Oh et al, 2020). Further confirming these findings that creative thoughts emerge through unconscious processing when there is lower conscious focus, in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study on musical creativity, Limb and Braun (2008) found that there was deactivation of lateral portions of the prefrontal cortex.…”

Taking the Humanities Seriously

“…A similar pattern occurs for jazz improv: Musicians who consciously strategize their way through the performance (usually relatively inexperienced musicians) rely on right frontal cortex; highly experienced musicians who just let the music flow without much conscious thought rely on left parietal cortex. (personal communication, April 14, 2020; see Erickson et al, 2018; Rosen et al, 2020)…”

“…A similar pattern occurs for jazz improv: Musicians who consciously strategize their way through the performance (usually relatively inexperienced musicians) rely on right frontal cortex; highly experienced musicians who just let the music flow without much conscious thought rely on left parietal cortex. (personal communication, April 14, 2020; see Erickson et al, 2018;Rosen et al, 2020) In Values in Psychological Science, Osbeck (2019) demonstrated the relevance to all science, including psychological science, of "imaginative sense-making" in the arts and humanities. She speaks expressly of "the value of metaphor in scientific sense-making" (p. 69) and of "metaphors as analogical models" (p. 70) (see Note 18).…”

A Systematic Review of Creativity-Related Studies Applying the Remote Associates Test From 2000 to 2019

“…A total of 37 studies explored the process of insight problem solving using RAT, including how individuals' memory (e.g., false memory) affects their developing insight (Howe et al, 2010(Howe et al, , 2011(Howe et al, , 2016Garner and Howe, 2014;Kizilirmak et al, 2016b;Ellis and Brewer, 2018;Howe and Garner, 2018), the incubation mechanism, such as dreams (Sio and Rudowicz, 2007;Vul and Pashler, 2007;Cai et al, 2009;Kohn and Smith, 2009;Penaloza and Calvillo, 2012;Nam and Lee, 2015;Sio and Ormerod, 2015;Morrison et al, 2017;Sio et al, 2017), how representational change affects one's insight problem solving (Barton et al, 2009), the aha! experience of insight (Bowden and Jung-Beeman, 2003b;Du et al, 2017;Kraus and Holtgraves, 2018), the mechanisms that occur in the brain when solving insight problems, such as brain networks, brain structure, brain function, and brain waves (Sandkühler and Bhattacharya, 2008;Kizilirmak et al, 2016a;Shen et al, 2016b;Rothmaler et al, 2017;Erickson et al, 2018;Ji et al, 2018;Ogawa et al, 2018;Ruggiero et al, 2018;Tik et al, 2018;Tempest and Radel, 2019), and eye movements (Huang, 2017;Huang et al, 2019). In addition, some studies focused on how individuals' attention (Cushen and Wiley, 2018;Zmigrod et al, 2019), meta-cognition (Storm and Hickman, 2015), creative thinking fluency…”