ArticleScience advances2021
Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot.
Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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- Methylphenidate undermines or enhances divergent creativity depending on baseline dopamine synthesis capacity.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Trial
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- Partial sleep deprivation with a 2-h time-in-bed may not change divergent thinking and insight problem solving in young males: a Bayesian analysis.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2026Article
- Learning the bistable cortical dynamics of the sleep-onset period.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- No evidence for sleep-dependent memory generalization in a large online sample.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The Emergence of New Schema Memory Requires Sleep.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Exploring the sleep quality-creativity relationship: a moderated mediation analysis of positive emotions and psychological capital.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Introducing the fusion innovation test as a new paradigm for studying realworld creative problem solving.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Systems memory consolidation during sleep: oscillations, neuromodulators, and synaptic remodeling.BMB reports · 2025Review
- Visuoaffective day residue in hypnagogia involves sequential bihemispheric interactions between cortical, subcortical, and cerebellar structures.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- Relationship and personality factors predict longitudinal changes in dream content.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Parallel processing of past and future memories through reactivation and synaptic plasticity mechanisms during sleep.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Long-distance exploration in insightful problem-solving.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Short naps improve subsequent learning in a high school setting.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Prodromal dreams.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Sleep on it!Brain communications · 2025Article
- Overlapping genetic influences between creativity and borderline personality symptoms in a large Dutch sample.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Prefrontal coding of learned and inferred knowledge during REM and NREM sleep.Nature communications · 2024Article
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7 authors.
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Abstract
The ability to think creatively is paramount to facing new challenges, but how creativity arises remains mysterious. Here, we show that the brain activity common to the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness (nonrapid eye movement sleep stage 1 or N1) ignites creative sparks. Participants (
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