ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2017
Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Enhance Creative Cognition: Interactions between Task, Polarity, and Stimulation Site.
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- Augmenting ideational fluency in a creativity task across multiple transcranial direct current stimulation montages.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Enhancing creativity by altering the frontoparietal control network functioning using transcranial direct current stimulation.Experimental brain research · 2021Trial
- Improvement in creativity after transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Dual-tDCS Ameliorates Cerebral Injury and Promotes Motor Function Recovery via cGAS-STING Signaling Pathway in a Rat Model of Ischemic Stroke.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- The impact of transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) on alpha coherence and verbal divergent thinking.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Developing positive design with innovative thinking framework: A design pedagogical approach to enhance subjective well-being.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Employing Verbal Divergent Thinking to Mitigate Cognitive Decline: Current State of Research and Reasons to Support Its Use.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Default mode network electrophysiological dynamics and causal role in creative thinking.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Effects of the special olympics unified sports soccer training program on executive function in adolescents with intellectual disabilities.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2024Article
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting the postcentral gyrus reduces malevolent creative ideation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- tDCS Anodal Stimulation of the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Improves Creative Performance in Real-World Problem Solving.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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- Do our eyes mirror our thought patterns? A study on the influence of convergent and divergent thinking on eye movement.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-Based Neural Interfaces for Recording and Stimulation: Fundamental Aspects and In Vivo Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Review
- Comparing transcranial direct current stimulation and transcranial random noise stimulation over left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left inferior frontal gyrus: Effects on divergent and convergent thinking.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Sex influences the brain functional connectivity correlates of originality.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Design Training and Creativity: Students Develop Stronger Divergent but Not Convergent Thinking.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Neuroprotection by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Rodent Models of Focal Ischemic Stroke: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- TDCS to the right anterior temporal lobe facilitates insight problem-solving.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Different role of the supplementary motor area and the insula between musicians and non-musicians in a controlled musical creativity task.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Creative cognition is frequently described as involving two primary processes, idea generation and idea selection. A growing body of research has used transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to examine the neural mechanisms implicated in each of these processes. This literature has yielded a diverse set of findings that vary depending on the location and type (anodal, cathodal, or both) of electrical stimulation employed, as well as the task's reliance on idea generation or idea selection. As a result, understanding the interactions between stimulation site, polarity and task demands is required to evaluate the potential of tDCS to enhance creative performance. Here, we review tDCS designs that have elicited reliable and dissociable enhancements for creative cognition. Cathodal stimulation over the left inferior frontotemporal cortex has been associated with improvements on tasks that rely primarily on idea generation, whereas anodal tDCS over left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and frontopolar cortex has been shown to augment performance on tasks that impose high demands on creative idea selection. These results highlight the functional selectivity of tDCS for different components of creative thinking and confirm the dissociable contributions of left dorsal and inferior lateral frontotemporal cortex for different creativity tasks. We discuss promising avenues for future research that can advance our understanding of the effectiveness of tDCS as a method to enhance creative cognition.
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