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ArticleJournal of Intelligence2021

Exploring Neural Signal Complexity as a Potential Link between Creative Thinking, Intelligence, and Cognitive Control.

Yadwinder Kaur, Selina Weiss, Changsong Zhou, Rico Fischer, Andrea Hildebrandt

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Article in Journal of Intelligence, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yadwinder KaurDepartment of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany.
Selina WeissInstitute of Psychology and Education, Department of Individual Differences and Psychological Assessment, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8796-2154
Changsong ZhouDepartment of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong 999077, Hong Kong.
Rico FischerDepartment of Psychology, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
Andrea HildebrandtDepartment of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5564-0126

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional connectivity studies have demonstrated that creative thinking builds upon an interplay of multiple neural networks involving the cognitive control system. Theoretically, cognitive control has generally been discussed as the common basis underlying the positive relationship between creative thinking and intelligence. However, the literature still lacks a detailed investigation of the association patterns between cognitive control, the factors of creative thinking as measured by divergent thinking (DT) tasks, i.e., fluency and originality, and intelligence, both fluid and crystallized. In the present study, we explored these relationships at the behavioral and the neural level, based on

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brain signal complexity (BSC)cognitive controlcreative/fluent verbal associationcreative thinkingdivergent thinking (DT)fluid (gf) and crystallized intelligence (gc)inhibitionmulti-scale entropy (MSE)verbal creativity

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PMID34940381
PMCPMC8706335

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