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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Creativity, defined as novel and useful idea generation, is crucial for human cognition.
  • Understanding the neural basis of creativity, particularly during divergent thinking, remains an active research area.
  • Exploring functional connectivity (FC) patterns within brain networks offers insights into complex cognitive processes like creativity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate functional connectivity (FC) patterns in the brain during the alternative uses task, a measure of divergent thinking.
  • To examine the relationship between these FC patterns and individual differences in openness to experience.
  • To confirm network-based mechanisms underlying creativity and the neural basis of openness.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analysis to explore brain region connectivity during a divergent thinking task.
  • Assessed individual differences using the openness to experience trait.
  • Analyzed functional connectivity (FC) between default mode, cognitive control, and salience networks.

Main Results:

  • Identified positive functional connectivity (FC) between the inferior parietal lobule, precuneus, and middle temporal gyrus.
  • Found positive FC between the middle frontal gyrus/superior frontal gyrus, precuneus, and supramarginal gyrus.
  • Demonstrated that openness to experience positively correlates with the strength of FCs in key network regions.

Conclusions:

  • Creativity during divergent thinking is supported by network-based brain mechanisms.
  • Specific functional connectivity (FC) patterns involving the inferior parietal lobule and frontal gyri are linked to creative tasks.
  • Individual differences in openness to experience are associated with distinct functional connectivity (FC) profiles in the brain.