TY - JOUR
T1 - Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics
AU - Beaty, Roger E.
AU - Benedek, Mathias
AU - Silvia, Paul J.
AU - Schacter, Daniel L.
N1 - Funding Information:
R.E.B. was supported by grant RFP-15-12 from the Imagination Institute, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. D.L.S was supported by National Institute of Mental Health R01 MH060941 and National Institute on Aging RO1 AG08441.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Creative thinking is central to the arts, sciences, and everyday life. How does the brain produce creative thought? A series of recently published papers has begun to provide insight into this question, reporting a strikingly similar pattern of brain activity and connectivity across a range of creative tasks and domains, from divergent thinking to poetry composition to musical improvisation. This research suggests that creative thought involves dynamic interactions of large-scale brain systems, with the most compelling finding being that the default and executive control networks, which can show an antagonistic relation, tend to cooperate during creative cognition and artistic performance. These findings have implications for understanding how brain networks interact to support complex cognitive processes, particularly those involving goal-directed, self-generated thought.
AB - Creative thinking is central to the arts, sciences, and everyday life. How does the brain produce creative thought? A series of recently published papers has begun to provide insight into this question, reporting a strikingly similar pattern of brain activity and connectivity across a range of creative tasks and domains, from divergent thinking to poetry composition to musical improvisation. This research suggests that creative thought involves dynamic interactions of large-scale brain systems, with the most compelling finding being that the default and executive control networks, which can show an antagonistic relation, tend to cooperate during creative cognition and artistic performance. These findings have implications for understanding how brain networks interact to support complex cognitive processes, particularly those involving goal-directed, self-generated thought.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2015.10.004
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2015.10.004
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26553223
AN - SCOPUS:84959147791
VL - 20
SP - 87
EP - 95
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
SN - 1364-6613
IS - 2
ER -