ArticleHuman brain mapping2018
Affective creativity meets classic creativity in the scanner.
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- Lower cognitive reappraisal capacity is related to impairments in attachment and personality structure in poly-drug use: an fMRI study.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Article
- Failure to reappraise: Malevolent creativity is linked to revenge ideation and impaired reappraisal inventiveness in the face of stressful, anger-eliciting events.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2021Article
- Creativity is associated with a characteristic U-shaped function of alpha power changes accompanied by an early increase in functional coupling.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
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- The Dynamics of Creative Ideation: Introducing a New Assessment Paradigm.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
The investigation of neurocognitive processes underlying more real-life creative behavior is among the greatest challenges in creativity research. In this fMRI study, we addressed this issue by investigating functional patterns of brain activity while participants were required to be creative in an affective context. Affective creativity was assessed in terms of individual's inventiveness in generating alternative appraisals for anger-evoking events, which has recently emerged as a new ability concept in cognitive reappraisal research. In addition, a classic divergent thinking task was administered. Both creativity tasks yielded strong activation in left prefrontal regions, indicating their shared cognitive processing demands like the inhibition of prepotent responses, shifting between different perspectives and controlled memory retrieval. Regarding task-specific differences, classic creative ideation activated a characteristic divergent thinking network comprising the left supramarginal, inferior temporal, and inferior frontal gyri. Affective creativity on the other hand specifically recruited the right superior frontal gyrus, presumably involved in the postretrieval monitoring of reappraisal success, and core hubs of the default-mode network, which are also implicated in social cognition. As a whole, by taking creativity research to the realm of emotion, this study advances our understanding of how more real-life creativity is rooted in the brain. Hum Brain Mapp 39:393-406, 2018. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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