Creativity comes in waves: an EEG-focused exploration of the creative brain
| Autor: | Darya L. Zabelina, Carl E. Stevens |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cognitive science
Empirical work medicine.diagnostic_test Process (engineering) Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Cognition Electroencephalography Creativity 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine medicine High temporal resolution 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Divergent thinking 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Mental image media_common |
| Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 27:154-162 |
| ISSN: | 2352-1546 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.02.003 |
| Popis: | Electroencephalographic (EEG) methodology in creativity research has been remarkably fruitful, establishing the potential of EEG to illuminate complex and transient creativity-related neural processes. Here we synthesize recent advances in the field, highlighting empirical work on creativity as divergent thinking, remote associations, musical creativity, and visual imagery. There is a general consensus that alpha-band activity plays a key role in the creative process, though other frequency bands, such as theta and gamma also serve critical functions. We further discuss evidence for electrical stimulation (tDCS and tACS) as a tool for improvements in creative thinking. EEG’s high temporal resolution is supremely suitable for studying creative cognition, and studies continuing to yield new and exciting evidence regarding the local and global neural processes underlying creativity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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