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BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 214, Issue 2, Pages 143-156Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.015
Keywords
Creativity; Divergent thinking; Convergent thinking; Insight; Intelligence; Neuroimaging; Psychometrics; EEG, electroencephalography; fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging; DTI, diffusion tensor imaging; MRS, magnetic resonance spectroscopy; NIRS, near infrared spectroscopy; PET, positron emission tomography; Phase; Power; Coherence; Synchronization
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- John Templeton Foundation
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Many studies of creative cognition with a neuroimaging component now exist; what do they say about where and how creativity arises in the brain? We reviewed 45 brain-imaging studies of creative cognition. We found little clear evidence of overlap in their results. Nearly as many different tests were used as there were studies; this test diversity makes it impossible to interpret the different findings across studies with any confidence. Our conclusion is that creativity research would benefit from psychometrically informed revision, and the addition of neuroimaging methods designed to provide greater spatial localization of function. Without such revision in the behavioral measures and study designs, it is hard to see the benefit of imaging. We set out eight suggestions in a manifesto for taking creativity research forward. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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