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    • Neuroscience
    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Cognitive Science

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    • Cognitive styles, rational and irrational, are hypothesized to influence distinct patterns of brain activity.
    • Understanding the neural correlates of convergent and divergent thinking is crucial for cognitive neuroscience.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the relationship between cognitive styles (rational vs. irrational) and brain activity (alpha1 and alpha2 rhythms) during convergent and divergent thinking.
    • To explore how idea originality relates to brain activity patterns in individuals with varying levels of intuition.

    Main Methods:

    • Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to record alpha1 and alpha2 rhythms.
    • Participants engaged in convergent (mental addition) and divergent (heuristic problem-solving) thinking tasks.
    • Correlation analysis was performed between EEG data, cognitive style, and idea originality.

    Main Results:

    • Convergent thinking, associated with a rational style, showed increased activity in parietal low-frequency alpha1 biopotentials.
    • Divergent thinking, linked to an irrational style, exhibited widespread regional and frequency differences in alpha1 and alpha2 oscillations in the posterior cortex.
    • Originality of ideas correlated with alpha desynchronization in the posterior cortex for highly intuitive individuals, and alpha synchronization for less intuitive individuals.

    Conclusions:

    • Cognitive styles significantly modulate neural activity during different types of thinking.
    • Alpha rhythm patterns in the posterior cortex are differentially associated with rational/irrational styles and convergent/divergent thinking.
    • Intuition levels interact with alpha activity to influence creative idea generation.