The Neurobiological Foundation of Creative Cognition

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity: A Critical Review

“…But it is misleading to say that creativity is ''in'' the right hemisphere (also see Feist, 2010;Kaufman et al, 2010); the aforementioned studies found that high creatives show patterns of bilateral hemispheric activation. And as always, one must keep in mind that these differences, resulting from paired image subtraction, are never greater than 3% in any single voxel.…”

“…These studies have resulted in many intriguing findings, and a fair amount of media coverage (e.g., Carey, 2006;Hotz, 2009;Tierney, 2010). Yet to date, no comprehensive and critical review of these studies has yet been published (in spite of a few recent treatments: Kaufman, Kornilov, Bristol, Tan, & Grigorenko, 2010;Skov & Vartanian, 2009). The purpose of this article is to provide a critical review of studies that have used the methodologies of cognitive neuroscience (CN) and that have implications for creativity researchers.…”

The Drawing and the intuitive action on knowledge acquisition - Empowering design though reasoning with drawing

“…However a growing number of results ranging from the biological (mainly, neural) to the cognitive (Lieberman: 2000;Jung-Beeman et al: 2004;Luu et al: 2010) suggest that pre-existing expertise, theme 6 open strand which requires years of practice to achieve (Dreyfus & Dreyfus: 1980;Ericsson et al: 1993) may not be a key requirement for intuitive decision-making processes. These studies, and others, suggest that intuitive decision making processes share some of the same underlying neural structures and cognitive processes as a type of learning known as implicit learning (Lieberma: 2000, 20007;Kaufman et al: 2010). According to these authors, therefore, through the acquisition of domain awareness through implicit learning, one may be able automatically strength the neural, cognitive and behavioral levels, the same characteristics needed for effective intuitive decision making intuitive.…”

Creativity and the Genome: The State of Affairs

“…Although the field of intelligence readily embraced this notion and has produced a huge body of quantitative‐ and molecular‐genetic research (Plomin & Deary, ; Sniekers et al., ), the field of creativity has been quite reserved about employing both types of studies. Yet for the last 50 years, this particular subfield of research has started gaining momentum and a body of relevant literature has now accumulated that can and has been reviewed (Barbot, Tan, & Grigorenko, ; Kaufman, Kornilov, Bristol, Tan, & Grigorenko, ). So, what are the most salient points that have been derived from this research?…”

“…Notwithstanding, the number of quantitative‐genetic studies of creativity and its various facets is limited. Yet, their review (Kaufman et al., ) indicates that they substantiate, at first approximation, the importance of genetic factors as sources of individual differences for creativity and its related processes at the level of behavior. In other words, the substantial familiality and heritability of creativity provide a context for attempts to investigate creativity at the molecular‐genetic level and to identify specific genetic factors that may substantiate the vertical and horizontal transmission of creativity within families.…”