Trends in Cognitive Sciences
 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.10.004
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Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

Roger E. Beaty
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Mathias Benedek
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Paul J. Silvia
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Abstract: 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 c… Show more

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“…Viewed from the large-scale networks’ perspective, our findings only partially concur with the literature discussed above. Instead of previously reported stronger coupling between hubs of the DMN (i.e., ACC) and hubs of the ECN (i.e., pars orbitalis as part of the IFG; Beaty et al, 2016 ), we found a tRNS-induced decrease in alpha coherence change between the SN (i.e., ACC) and ECN (pars orbitalis as part of the IFG). Similarly, a tRNS-induced decrease in alpha coherence change was observed between the PCC and the medial orbitofrontal cortex.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…Viewed from the large-scale networks’ perspective, our findings only partially concur with the literature discussed above. Instead of previously reported stronger coupling between hubs of the DMN (i.e., ACC) and hubs of the ECN (i.e., pars orbitalis as part of the IFG; Beaty et al, 2016 ), we found a tRNS-induced decrease in alpha coherence change between the SN (i.e., ACC) and ECN (pars orbitalis as part of the IFG). Similarly, a tRNS-induced decrease in alpha coherence change was observed between the PCC and the medial orbitofrontal cortex.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…Additionally, low clustering coefficients and a random network of short connection paths were helpful to the development of remote associations, which indicates the influence of connectomics of brain networking on remote association and close association. This finding supports the statement that creativity requires cooperation among several brain regions [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 71 , 72 , 73 ].…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 90%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
“…The caudal part of the L‐IFG (BA44) has been associated with several executive processes, such as cognitive control, inhibition, flexibility, and fluency (Gonen‐Yaacovi et al, ). In line with our results, the inhibitory role of the L‐IFG in the creative process has been further supported in recent studies (Beaty et al, , ; Ellamil et al, ; Kleinmintz et al, ). Several lesion and case studies have demonstrated a “releasing effect” on creativity after left frontal degeneration (Mayseless et al, ; Miller et al, ; Seeley et al, ; Shamay‐Tsoory et al, ).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 93%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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