The Creative Brain Under Stress: Considerations for Performance in Extreme Environments

Vartanian, Oshin; Saint, Sidney Ann; Herz, Nicole; Suedfeld, Peter

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585969

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“…One needs knowledge to be creative in a field—it is difficult to be creative in a field about which one is not knowledgeable (Weisberg, 2006). This picture is consistent with neuroscientific evidence that creativity is process‐specific and domain‐specific (Boccia, Piccardi, Palermo, Nori, & Palmiero, 2015; Gonen‐Yaacovi et al., 2013; Vartanian, Saint, Herz, & Suedfeld, 2020).…”

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An 8P Theoretical Framework for Understanding Creativity and Theories of Creativity

Sternberg

Karami

2021

Journal of Creative Behavior

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This article presents an 8P theoretical framework for understanding creativity and theories of creativity. The 8Ps are purpose, press, person, problem, process, product, propulsion, and public. The article opens by distinguishing between a theory and a model, on the one hand, and a theoretical framework, on the other. It then considers briefly some of the theoretical frameworks for creativity that have been proposed in the past. Next, it describes the 8P theoretical framework and how it applies to understanding creativity and theories of creativity. The 8P framework suggests that most theories of creativity have been rather incomplete, dealing only with limited aspects of the phenomenon.

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Section: The 8ps In the Frameworksupporting

confidence: 86%

An 8P Theoretical Framework for Understanding Creativity and Theories of Creativity

Sternberg

Karami

2021

Journal of Creative Behavior

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“…There could also have been other factors potentially covarying with women’s creativity or fertility that we did not control. For example, general level of stress may impair both creative thinking [ 120 ] and women’s fertility [ 121 ]. We did not control for psychiatric and neurological diseases, nor for taking neuroactive medicine.…”

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The More Fertile, the More Creative: Changes in Women’s Creative Potential across the Ovulatory Cycle

Galasinska

Szymków

2021

IJERPH

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Creative thinking is a defining human feature. It provides novel solutions and as such undoubtedly has contributed to our survival. However, according to signaling theory, creativity could also have evolved through sexual selection as a potential fitness indicator. In our study, we tested one implication of this theory. Specifically, we hypothesized that if creativity can serve as a signal of women’s fitness, then we should observe an increase in creative thinking in the fertile phase of the ovulatory cycle compared to other non-fertile phases. In our study (N = 751), we tested creative potential throughout the ovulatory cycle. We found a positive correlation between the probability of conception and both creative originality and flexibility. Importantly, we also tested the mediating role of arousal in the relationship between the probability of conception and creative thinking. The results of our study are discussed in terms of signaling theory, through which women advertise their fitness with their creativity.

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“…Daker et al, 2020. Vartanian et al, 2020). Such a study of dynamics could be guided using the three amygdala subdivisions established in Sylvester et al, 2020, that is, the default mode, dorsal attention, and unspecified amygdala, to elucidate their respective dynamic FC with cortical networks implicated in creativity.…”

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Creative tempo: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the default mode network in improvisational musicians

Watters,

Fazili,

Daley

et al. 2024

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The intrinsic dynamics of human brain activity display a recurring pattern of anti-correlated activity between the default mode network (DMN), associated with internal processing and mentation, and task positive regions, associated with externally directed attention. In human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, this anti-correlated pattern is detectable on the infraslow timescale (<0.1 Hz) as a quasi-periodic pattern (QPP). While the DMN is implicated in creativity and musicality in traditional time-averaged functional connectivity studies, no one has yet explored how creative training may alter dynamic spatiotemporal patterns involving the DMN such as QPPs. In the present study, we compare the outputs of two QPP detection approaches, sliding window algorithm and complex principal components analysis (cPCA). We apply both methods to an existing dataset of musicians captured with resting state fMRI, grouped as either classical, improvisational, or minimally trained non-musicians. The original time-averaged functional connectivity (FC) analysis of this dataset used improvisation as a proxy for creative thinking and found that the DMN and visual networks (VIS) display higher connectivity in improvisational musicians. We expand upon the original study of this dataset and find that QPP analysis detects convergent results at the group level with both methods. In improvisational musicians, dynamic functional correlation in the group-averaged QPP was found to be increased between the DMN-VIS and DMN-FPN for both the QPP algorithm and complex principal components analysis (cPCA) methods. Additionally, we found an unexpected increase in FC in the group-averaged QPP between the dorsal attention network and amygdala in improvisational musicians; this result was not reported in the original seed-based study of this dataset. The current study represents a novel application of two dynamic FC detection methods with results that replicate and expand upon previous seed-based FC findings. The results show the robustness of both the QPP phenomenon and its detection methods. This study also demonstrates the value of dynamic FC methods in reproducing seed-based findings and their promise in detecting group-wise or individual differences that may be missed by traditional seed-based resting state fMRI studies.

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The Creative Brain Under Stress: Considerations for Performance in Extreme Environments

Cited by 15 publications

References 53 publications

An 8P Theoretical Framework for Understanding Creativity and Theories of Creativity

An 8P Theoretical Framework for Understanding Creativity and Theories of Creativity

The More Fertile, the More Creative: Changes in Women’s Creative Potential across the Ovulatory Cycle

Creative tempo: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the default mode network in improvisational musicians

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