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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Creative thinking drives technological and cultural advancement.
  • The neural underpinnings of high creativity remain largely undefined.
  • Understanding the creative brain is crucial for innovation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify the specific brain network associated with high creative ability.
  • To develop a predictive model of creative thinking using brain connectivity.
  • To validate this model across multiple neuroimaging datasets.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized connectome-based predictive modeling with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.
  • Analyzed functional brain connectivity in 163 participants during a divergent thinking task.
  • Employed leave-one-out cross-validation and external validation analyses on independent fMRI samples.

Main Results:

  • A significant correlation was found between creative thinking ability and self-reported creative achievements (r = 0.54).
  • A specific pattern of functional brain connectivity involving frontal and parietal regions across default, salience, and executive systems was identified.
  • The developed neural model reliably predicted creative thinking ability in novel participants and across independent datasets.

Conclusions:

  • A whole-brain network, comprising cortical hubs within default, salience, and executive systems, is associated with high creative ability.
  • Highly creative individuals demonstrate the capacity for simultaneous engagement of these typically opposing brain networks.
  • This study provides a robust neural marker for high creative thinking.