ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2018
To create or to recall original ideas: Brain processes associated with the imagination of novel object uses.
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- Default mode network electrophysiological dynamics and causal role in creative thinking.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Controlling stimulus ambiguity reduces spurious creative ideation variance in a cyclic adaptation of the alternative uses task.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Classify Brain Morphology of Professional Visual Artists versus Non-Artists.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Brain connectivity-based prediction of real-life creativity is mediated by semantic memory structure.Science advances · 2022Article
- Altered Brain Connectivity Patterns of Individual Differences in Insightful Problem Solving.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The ambulatory battery of creativity: Additional evidence for reliability and validity.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- More Than Meets the Eye: Art Engages the Social Brain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Alpha Oscillations in Parietal and Parietooccipital Explaining How Boredom Matters Prospective Memory.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Brain activation during the observation of real soccer game situations predicts creative goal scoring.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- Can Eating Make Us More Creative? A Multisensory Perspective.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The Four-Factor Imagination Scale (FFIS): a measure for assessing frequency, complexity, emotional valence, and directedness of imagination.Psychological research · 2020Article
- Default network contributions to episodic and semantic processing during divergent creative thinking: A representational similarity analysis.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Need something different? Here's what's been done: Effects of examples and task instructions on creative idea generation.Memory & cognition · 2020Article
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This fMRI study investigated what brain processes contribute to the generation of new ideas. Brain activation was measured while participants generated new original object uses, recalled original object uses, or recalled common object uses. Post-scan evaluations were used to confirm what ideas were newly generated on the spot or actually retrieved from memory. When compared to the recall of common ideas, the generation of new and old original ideas showed a similar activation pattern including activation of bilateral parahippocampal and mPFC regions, suggesting that the construction of new ideas builds on similar processes like the reconstruction of original ideas from episodic memory. As a difference, the generation of new object uses involved higher activation of a focused cluster in the left supramarginal gyrus compared to the recall of original ideas. This finding adds to the converging evidence that the left supramarginal gyrus is crucially involved in the construction of novel representations, potentially by integrating memory content in new ways and supporting executively demanding mental simulations. This study deepens our understanding of how creative thought builds on and goes beyond memory.
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