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Different brain structures associated with artistic and scientific creativity: a voxel-based morphometry study.

Baoguo Shi¹, Xiaoqing Cao¹, Qunlin Chen^2,3

¹Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China.

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Artistic creativity is linked to lower gray matter volume in specific brain areas, while scientific creativity is associated with higher gray matter volume in different regions. These findings reveal distinct neural bases for artistic and scientific creative abilities.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Neuroimaging

Background:

Creativity drives human civilization but its neural underpinnings, particularly differences between artistic and scientific domains, remain under-investigated in large samples.
Understanding these distinctions is crucial for appreciating the diverse cognitive processes underlying human innovation.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically investigate and identify structural brain differences associated with artistic versus scientific creativity.
To explore the neural correlates of divergent creative domains in a large cohort.

Main Methods:

Employed voxel-based morphometry (VBM) on 356 healthy young adults.
Assessed creativity using the Creative Achievement Questionnaire (CAQ).
Correlated regional gray matter volume (GMV) with scores for artistic and scientific creativity.

Main Results:

Artistic creativity showed a negative association with gray matter volume in the supplementary motor area (SMA) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).
Scientific creativity positively correlated with gray matter volume in the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) and left inferior occipital gyrus (IOG).
Artistic creativity was linked to the salience network (SN), while scientific creativity was associated with executive attention and semantic processing networks.

Conclusions:

Distinct regional gray matter volumes underpin artistic and scientific creativity.
These findings offer potential neural markers for evaluating creative performance in art and science.
Highlights the specialized neural networks supporting different forms of creativity.