Trial reportHuman brain mapping2015
Training of verbal creativity modulates brain activity in regions associated with language- and memory-related demands.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Uncovering neural distinctions and commodities between two creativity subsets: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies in divergent thinking and insight using activation likelihood estimation.Human brain mapping · 2022Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of divergent thinking using activation likelihood estimation.Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
- Dysphasia and Other Higher Cortical Dysfunctions During the Migraine Aura-a Systematic Review of Literature.Current pain and headache reports · 2020Pooled it
- Digital Mahjong-Based Cognitive Engagement Intervention for Older Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR aging · 2026Trial
- Brain plasticity in response to artistic and non-artistic training aimed at promoting creativity: How can we enhance creativity and capture the process in neuroscience?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Are False Memory and Creative Thinking Mediated by Common Neural Substrates? An fMRI Meta-Analysis.Creativity research journal · 2025Article
- Employing Verbal Divergent Thinking to Mitigate Cognitive Decline: Current State of Research and Reasons to Support Its Use.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Linking creativity and false memory: Common consequences of a flexible memory system.Cognition · 2021Article
- Impact of Divergent Thinking Training on Teenagers' Emotion and Self-Efficacy During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Changes in Brain Responses to Music and Non-music Sounds Following Creativity Training Within the "Different Hearing" Program.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Modulation of hippocampal brain networks produces changes in episodic simulation and divergent thinking.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Dimensions of Musical Creativity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Creativity slumps and bumps: Examining the neurobehavioral basis of creativity development during middle childhood.NeuroImage · 2019Article
- Learning Unicycling Evokes Manifold Changes in Gray and White Matter Networks Related to Motor and Cognitive Functions.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Retrieval Support Divergent Creative Thinking.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Article
- To create or to recall original ideas: Brain processes associated with the imagination of novel object uses.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2018Article
- Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Affective creativity meets classic creativity in the scanner.Human brain mapping · 2018Article
- Higher extrinsic and lower intrinsic connectivity in resting state networks for professional Baduk (Go) players.Brain and behavior · 2017Article
- Changes in Brain Activation Associated with Spontaneous Improvization and Figural Creativity After Design-Thinking-Based Training: A Longitudinal fMRI Study.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2017Article
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Abstract
This functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) study was designed to investigate changes in functional patterns of brain activity during creative ideation as a result of a computerized, 3-week verbal creativity training. The training was composed of various verbal divergent thinking exercises requiring participants to train approximately 20 min per day. Fifty-three participants were tested three times (psychometric tests and fMRI assessment) with an intertest-interval of 4 weeks each. Participants were randomly assigned to two different training groups, which received the training time-delayed: The first training group was trained between the first and the second test, while the second group accomplished the training between the second and the third test session. At the behavioral level, only one training group showed improvements in different facets of verbal creativity right after the training. Yet, functional patterns of brain activity during creative ideation were strikingly similar across both training groups. Whole-brain voxel-wise analyses (along with supplementary region of interest analyses) revealed that the training was associated with activity changes in well-known creativity-related brain regions such as the left inferior parietal cortex and the left middle temporal gyrus, which have been shown as being particularly sensitive to the originality facet of creativity in previous research. Taken together, this study demonstrates that continuous engagement in a specific complex cognitive task like divergent thinking is associated with reliable changes of activity patterns in relevant brain areas, suggesting more effective search, retrieval, and integration from internal memory representations as a result of the training.
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