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Linking functional connectome gradient to individual creativity.

Tengbin Huo^1,2, Yunman Xia^3,4,5, Kaixiang Zhuang^1,2

¹Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China.

Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

|February 9, 2022

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Human creativity is linked to brain network organization. Higher creativity correlates with specific patterns in the unimodal-transmodal gradient of the functional connectome in young adults.

Keywords:

creativity functional gradient individual difference transmodal regions

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Brain Imaging

Background:

The human brain exhibits hierarchical organization with connectome gradients.
The principal gradient spans modality-specific primary areas and transmodal regions.
The unimodal-transmodal gradient may underpin higher-order cognition, but direct links are underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the association between creativity and the unimodal-transmodal gradient in the human brain.
To utilize two independent datasets of young adults for robust findings.

Main Methods:

Identified the unimodal-transmodal gradient in functional connectome for each individual.
Calculated global measures of the gradient.
Correlated individual creativity scores with gradient measures at global, subsystem, and regional levels.

Main Results:

Enhanced creative performance associated with greater distance between primary and transmodal regions.
Reduced distance between ventral attention and default mode networks linked to creativity.
Positive correlation between creativity and regional gradients in the ventral attention network.
Negative correlation between creativity and gradients in the visual cortex.

Conclusions:

Directly links the unimodal-transmodal gradient to individual creativity.
Provides empirical evidence for the cognitive significance of functional connectome gradients.
Highlights the role of specific network architectures in higher-order cognitive functions like creativity.