The Creative Brain: Brain Correlates Underlying the Generation of Original Ideas
The Creative Brain: Brain Correlates Underlying the Generation of Original Ideas
Studies using electroencephalography (EEG) have provided reliable evidence that brain activity in the alpha band is particularly sensitive to a broad range of different creativity-related demands. Alpha increases during creative ideation could reflect more internally oriented attention (absence of external bottom-up stimulation) and the involvement of specific memory processes such as the efficient (re-)combination of unrelated semantic information. Available studies also suggest that creative ideation can be improved effectively by means of specific interventions (divergent thinking exercises, cognitive stimulation) and that training effects are associated with changes at the level of the brain.
Keywords: Creativity, Divergent thinking, EEG, Training, Cognitive stimulation
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