ArticleJournal of cognitive neuroscience2018
Core Network Contributions to Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future, and Thinking Creatively.
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- Consistent neural evidence to support novelty and appropriateness processing for creative thinking: a coordinated meta-analysis using activation likelihood estimation.Brain structure & function · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of episodic specificity induction on divergent thinking: A meta-analytic study.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of fMRI studies related to mathematical creativity.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled 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
- Mapping the artistic brain: Common and distinct neural activations associated with musical, drawing, and literary creativity.Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
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- Constructive Memory and Conscious Experience.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- Peering into the future: Eye movements predict neural repetition effects during episodic simulation.Neuropsychologia · 2024Article
- Creative therapy in health and disease: Inner vision.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Review
- Constructive episodic retrieval processes underlying memory distortion contribute to creative thinking and everyday problem solving.Memory & cognition · 2023Article
- Functional lateralization of the medial temporal lobe in novel associative processing during creativity evaluation.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Evaluating the effects of episodic and semantic memory induction procedures on divergent thinking in younger and older adults.PloS one · 2023Article
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The core network refers to a set of neural regions that have been consistently associated with episodic memory retrieval and episodic future simulation. This network is thought to support the constructive thought processes that allow the retrieval and flexible combination of stored information to reconstruct past and construct novel future experiences. Recent behavioral research points to an overlap between these constructive processes and those also engaged during divergent thinking-the ability to think creatively and generate novel ideas-but the extent to which they involve common neural correlates remains unclear. Using fMRI, we sought to address this question by assessing brain activity as participants recalled past experiences, simulated future experiences, or engaged in divergent thinking. Consistent with past work, we found that episodic retrieval and future simulation activated the core network compared with a semantic control condition. Critically, a triple conjunction of episodic retrieval, future simulation, and divergent thinking revealed common engagement of core network regions, including the bilateral hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus, as well as other regions involved in memory retrieval (inferior frontal gyrus) and mental imagery (middle occipital gyrus). The results provide further insight into the roles of the hippocampus and the core network in episodic memory retrieval, future simulation, and divergent thinking and extend recent work highlighting the involvement of constructive episodic processes in creative cognition.
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