The Drive for Creativity and the Escape from Creativity: Neurocognitive Mechanisms

Perlovsky, Leonid; Levine, Daniel S.

doi:10.1007/s12559-012-9154-3

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“…As knowledge, cognition, and culture have evolved and are categorized in language, amusical people can participate in this cultural process. If insensitivity to music affects cognitive differences between musical and amusical people, these differences should be searched in specifically creative aspects of cognition, such as differences between decisions made using the knowledge instinct and using language-based heuristics (Perlovsky & Levine, 2012).…”

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Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

Perlovsky

Cabanac

Bonniot-Cabanac

et al. 2013

Behavioural Brain Research

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We explore a possibility that the 'Mozart effect' points to a fundamental cognitive function of music. Would such an effect of music be due to the hedonicity, a fundamental dimension of mental experience? The present paper explores a recent hypothesis that music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances and thus enabled accumulation of knowledge and human cultural evolution. We studied whether the influence of music is related to its hedonicity and whether pleasant or unpleasant music would influence scholarly test performance and cognitive dissonance. Specific hypotheses evaluated in this study are that during a test students experience contradictory cognitions that cause cognitive dissonances. If some music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances, then first, this music should increase the duration during which participants can tolerate stressful conditions while evaluating test choices. Second, this should result in improved performance. These hypotheses are tentatively confirmed in the reported experiments as the agreeable music was correlated with longer duration of tests under stressful conditions and better performance above that under indifferent or unpleasant music. It follows that music likely performs a fundamental cognitive function explaining the origin and evolution of musical ability that have been considered a mystery.

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Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

Perlovsky

Cabanac

Bonniot-Cabanac

et al. 2013

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…The insula and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) are two regions that couple and form the core regions of the SN (Di Domenico & Ryan, 2017). Salience judgements can be affected by the insula because of the close connection with all the sensory and association cortices (Perlovsky & Levine, 2012). The insula may also selectively amplify neural signals of important events for the effective deployment of cognitive resources; while participating in creative tasks, the salience system and insula regulate emotion during the formation of higher level abstract thoughts (Di Domenico & Ryan, 2017).…”

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“…The insula may also selectively amplify neural signals of important events for the effective deployment of cognitive resources; while participating in creative tasks, the salience system and insula regulate emotion during the formation of higher level abstract thoughts (Di Domenico & Ryan, 2017). On the other hand, the ACC mediates conflicting or ambiguous information about choices or rules between options, and this ACC activation may then activate the dlPFC which tends to selectively highlight desirable attributes that are relevant to the task performance (Perlovsky & Levine, 2012).…”

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The Dynamic Relationship of Brain Networks Across Time Windows During Product-Based Creative Thinking

Yeh¹,

Hsu²,

Rega³

2019

JPR

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Consensus of creativity research suggests that the measurement of both originality and valuableness is necessary when designing creativity tasks. However, few studies have emphasized valuableness when exploring underlying neural substrates of creative thinking. The present study employs product-based creativity tasks that measure both originality and valuableness in an exploration of the dynamic relationship between the default mode (DMN), executive control (ECN), and salience (SN) networks through time windows. This methodology highlights relevance, or valuableness, in creativity evaluation as opposed to divergent thinking tasks solely measuring originality. The researchers identified seven brain regions belonging to the ECN, DMN, and SN as regions of interest (ROIs), as well as four representative seeds to analyze functional connectivity in 25 college student participants. Results showed that all of the identified ROIs were involved during the creative task. The insula, precuneus, and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) remained active across all stages of product-based creative thinking. Moreover, the connectivity analyses revealed varied interaction patterns of DMN, ECN, and SN at different thinking stages. The integrated findings of the whole brain, ROI, and connectivity analyses suggest a trend that the DMN and SN (which relate to bottom-up thinking) attenuate as time proceeds, whereas the vlPFC (which relates to top-down thinking) gets stronger at later stages; these findings reflect the nature of our creativity tasks and decision-making of valuableness in later stages. Based on brain region activation throughout execution of the task, we propose that product-based creative process may include three stages: exploration and association, incubation and insight, and finally, evaluation and decision making. This model provides a thinking frame for further research and classroom instruction.

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“…PCT was chosen as the conceptual methodology as it explains the way in which people linguistically construct their world and its phenomena through categories and constructs. Ways in which we represent our experiences are reliant on productive linguistic processes (Perlovsky and Levine, 2012;Schank, 1972). According to PCT, people understand the world through organising encountered phenomena into categories.…”

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Creative Interpretation in Web Design Experience

2017

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Insight into how people mentally represent, and thus, make sense of visual designs is the key to understanding how people interact with technological devices. This paper presents a study in which participants were asked to write their interpretations of two webpage design examples, based on what they thought they would say and what would remain as a thought. The data comprised 80 3E-templates (N = 40), a template allowing participants to express experiences through writing and drawing. Inductive data analysis through a phenomenological lens revealed that supposed mental and verbal representations concentrated on the following design properties: colors, themes, interface layout and quality, which are further reflected in terms of visual usability, aesthetic evaluations, emotions and physical feelings. Representations of themes functioned as the unifying components of the visual experience. Involvement through curiosity and strategic operationalisation of ambiguity are identified as direct design implications of the study.

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The Drive for Creativity and the Escape from Creativity: Neurocognitive Mechanisms

Cited by 30 publications

References 75 publications

Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

The Dynamic Relationship of Brain Networks Across Time Windows During Product-Based Creative Thinking

Creative Interpretation in Web Design Experience

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