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The authors reported better performance in the anagram task (one of the problem-solving tasks that demand cognitive flexibility), following the uptake of propranolol (peripheral and central β-adrenergic antagonist) than after ephedrine (β-adrenergic agonist). Dopamine and executive function: increased spontaneous eye blink rates correlate with better set-shifting and inhibition, but poorer updating. doi: 10.3758/s13415-013-0210-6, Flaherty, A. W. (2005). Biobehav. (2011). Regional gray matter volume of dopaminergic system associate with creativity: evidence from voxel-based morphometry. The third level is represented in the innovative behavior, which relates to specific recognition of a particular object characterized by novelty. 166 A., and De Dreu, C. K. W. (2013). Brain Res. <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/ExtGState<>>>/Filter/FlateDecode/Length 4594>> The dynamical interaction between these two pathways might assist to explain the inconsistencies due to the independent evaluation in measuring genes and creativity during the past decade. Res. Neurosci. It’s also the brain’s ability to switch from thinking about one thing to thinking about something else quickly. Individuals who are cognitively flexible will be able to learn more quickly, solve problems more creatively, and adapt and respond to new situations more effectively. Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: the common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity. (2017) provided an integrative review on creative cognition and DA modulation in frontostriatal networks (see, Figure 5 and Table 2). They reported a dissociation between patient groups with frontal, temporoparietal, and basal ganglia (BG) lesions for diverse aspects of creativity. Moreover, cognitive flexibility (as measured by a switching task) could have a mediating impact on the association between the positive emotion and the insight problem solving, but not between the positive emotion and DT. Behav. (1998) argued that the assured reward improves creativity if there is an explicit positive relationship between creativity and reward (either currently or previously, i.e., it does not matter when). 196, 467–474. (2003). Given these points, the ability to think about the novel (original) ideas necessitates: (1) inhibiting spontaneous solutions, that cross to mind rapidly and unconsciously; and (2) exploring original (novel) ideas using a generative type of reasoning. Failing to deactivate: the association between brain activity during a working memory task and creativity. Psychol. Instead, it is an essential psychological and cognitive process as well (Csikszentmihalyi, 1999; Sawyer, 2006; Kaufman, 2009; Gaut, 2010; Perlovsky and Levine, 2012). 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Herewith the default mode and EC networks, which usually show an antagonistic relationship, tend to cooperate in enhancing creative cognition and thus artistic performance. Prospective research should further specify the neural mechanisms by which the neuromodulator systems influence the creative process. New York, NY: Oxford Press. work load, vacation hassles, vacation destination and positive affect) were also explored. (2012). Also, the reported central modulatory effect of NE on cognitive flexibility may relate to changes in the signal-to-noise ratio of neuronal activity within the cortex by suppressing the intrinsic excitatory synaptic potentials relative to the evoked potentials by external direct afferent input (Hasselmo et al., 1997; Usher et al., 1999). Creative cognition involves recruitment of working memory Jastrzębski, 2017, 2018), inhibition (Radel et al., 2015;Teng et al., 2018), and cognitive flexibility (Müller et al., 2016). Accordingly, elevation in LC activity is correlated with increasing levels of cortical NE. Notably, there was a positive correlation between CT and intelligence, but a negative correlation with EBR, proposing a correlation between CT impairment and higher levels of DA. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.070, Volf, N. V., and Tarasova, I. Many studies reported the first candidate genes for creativity (Reuter et al., 2006; Runco et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2014a, b; Zabelina et al., 2016; Grigorenko, 2017; see Table 1). Trait anxiety modulates brain activity during performance of verbal fluency tasks. endobj 4, 292–305. Radel et al. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2003.9651405, Kleinmintz, O. M., Abecasis, D., Tauber, A., Geva, A., Chistyakov, A. V., Kreinin, I., et al. flexible cognitive control, as defined by greater cognitive control modulation from trial to trial. doi: 10.1076/neur.9.5.369.16553, Inzelberg, R. (2013). >> Instead, it was attempted to define processes that underlie all creative thought. (2002). We propose a quantitative measure of flexibility based on the robustness of semantic memory networks to attack, assuming that the higher robustness, the higher the flexibility of the network. The interplay between spontaneous and controlled processing in creative cognition. Neurosci. The creative drive includes several factors that influence creativity such as emotion motivation, reward and other factors such as mood states, regulatory focus, and social interaction. 0000026670 00000 n doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.052, Takeuchi, H., Taki, Y., Hashizume, H., Sassa, Y., Nagase, T., Nouchi, R., et al. An exploratory study on DRD2 and creative potential. The first state refers to situations up-regulating the NE system, which diminishes cognitive flexibility while the second state relates to situations down-regulating NE system, which enhances cognitive flexibility. (2014) reported a series of clinical observations about patients with neurodegenerative diseases affecting PFC (i.e., FTD) and the facilitation of artistic production. An exciting study by Kulisevsky et al. Accordingly, the notion of creative cognition can be conceptualized within an evolutionary framework, namely Blind Variation and Selective Retention (BVSR; Jung et al., 2013). Soc. Organ. doi: 10.1037/0003-066x.53.6.676, Eisenberger, R., Haskins, F., and Gambelton, P. (1999). Competitive mindsets, creativity, and the role of regulatory focus. Musical creativity expressed activation in a bilateral network consisting of the bilateral medial frontal gyrus (MeFG) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) and inferior parietal lobule (IPL), and the right postcentral gyrus (PoCG) and fusiform gyrus (FG), as well as bilaterally the cerebellum. In this short creative thinking workshop video, you can start by exercising your cognitive flexibility. J. 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Brain regions are abbreviated as follows: PFC, prefrontal cortex; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; IPL, intraparietal lobule; TC, temporal cortex; OCC, occipital cortex; Th, thalamus; CeC, cerebellar cortex; and CS, central sulcus. Participants who selected more creative answers were more creative, based on the criteria of our experimental design. Int. 0000033523 00000 n Figure 1. This model suggested an interaction between the biological determinants, presenting the risk for psychopathology, and the protective cognitive factors. Epilepsy Behav. The concurrent validity of the N-back task as a working memory measure. (2010). 5:55. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00055, Lin, W.-L., Tsai, P., Lin, H.-Y., and Chen, H. (2014). Also, we included measurements of emotions (i.e., surprise and delight) and cognitive flexibility (using the Cognitive Flexibility Scale) after priming of stereotypes and counter-stereotypes in Experiment 2. The first level comprises of both the cognitive ability to recognize novelty, which is linked to hippocampal (HPC) function, and the seeking out of novelty, which is associated with the mesolimbic DA system. Psychol. In this article we argue that cognitive flexibility (i.e., the ability to match the type of cognitive processing with the type of problem at hand) enables decision makers to achieve significantly higher decision‐making performance. /Contents 56 0 R Nevertheless, not every person who is an artist, inventor or scientist is similarly creative, nor are all creative (innovative) individual artists, inventors or scientists. 8:663. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00663, Muhle-Karbe, P. S., and Krebs, R. M. (2012). Behav. %���� Affect. Cognitive flexibility refers to our ability to disengage from one task and respond to another or think about multiple concepts at the same time. Impact Factor 3.156 | CiteScore 5.9More on impact ›, Neuromodulation of Circuits in Brain Health and Disease Moreover, it was suggested that the presence of NE induces fluctuations in levels of other catecholamines, such as DA, which has been extensively discussed in the schizophrenia literature. Concerning inhibitory control, it is acknowledged that this executive function (EF) might be a core process involved in creative problem solving and idea generations (Cassotti et al., 2016). The effect of beta blockade on stress-induced cognitive dysfunction in adolescents. 37, 269–283. Concerning underlying brain networks, Mok (2014) further pointed out that EEG data related to creative cognition often inferred widespread alpha synchronization (synchronized brain waves that occur at 8–12 cycles per second), particularly in posterior regions. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.01.036, Krippl, M., and Karim, A. To fill this … (2016) described associations between another personality trait, i.e., conscientiousness and mental set shifting, but not response inhibition nor WM updating. Therefore, it is a matter of compensation. doi: 10.1037/a0012815, Baas, M., Nijstad, B. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010670, de Rooij, A., Vromans, R., and Dekker, M. (2018). Despite the previous findings, which related decreased creativity to an avoidance motivation and prevention focus when in a negative mood (Baas et al., 2008, 2013), an intriguing investigation by Roskes et al. doi: 10.1177/070674371105600304, Cassano, G. B., Mula, M., Rucci, P., Miniati, M., Frank, E., Kupfer, D. J., et al. Acad. (2014). Short-term retrospective versus prospective memory processing as emergent properties of the mind and brain: human fMRI evidence. For example, Flaherty (2005) reported that novelty seeking and creative drive are influenced by mesolimbic DA. 127, 256–261. Adjusting these disagreements, Roskes et al. 31, 398–409. Having a creative mind is one of the gateways for achieving fabulous success and remarkable progress in professional, personal and social life. Iran. Creativity appears in various diverse models, tones, and shades (Feist, 2010; Perlovsky and Levine, 2012). Salgado-Pineda et al. B[g"ƋG�E� 0000001241 00000 n Thus, prevention focus provides the indirect negative effect of competitive mindsets on creativity (Bittner and Heidemeier, 2013; Bittner et al., 2016). In the study by Runco et al. TEMPS-I: delineating the most discriminant traits of the cyclothymic, depressive, hyperthymic and irritable temperaments in a nonpatient population. Soc. When this patient was supplied with DA agonists, then, hidden creativity had been awaked. It permits individuals to perceive and reorder information in new ways (Ritter, 2014). The creative cognition is based on various cognitive functions such as cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, working memory (WM) updating, fluency, originality, and insights. The association between resting functional connectivity and creativity. doi: 10.1002/jocb.201, Guilford, J. P. (1967). No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Memory 18, 394–412. Creative cognition and dopaminergic modulation of fronto-striatal networks: integrative review and research agenda. As for the incremental effects of reward on creativity, Eisenberger and Rhoades (2001) questioned whether two-ways reward could enhance creativity. doi: 10.1016/s0028-3932(99)00128-1, Carson, S. H. (2011). Sci. Creativity is pivotal to solving complex problems of many kinds, yet how cognitive flexibility dynamically supports creative processes is largely unexplored. According to Benedek et al. Implications for theories of creativity and its underlying processing basis are discussed. (2009) provided one of the earliest reports on a significant association between the polymorphism in the human serotonin transporter gene [i.e., serotonin-transporter-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR)] and CAs (i.e., figural and verbal). Table 1. 37 0 obj Interestingly, monetary reward-induced changes in brain oscillations, as measured with EEG, were characteristic of men but not women (i.e., a promise of a cash reward were correlated with EEG changes in men but not in women). A startling study proposed that reward training could improve generalized creativity (Maltzman, 1960; Eisenberger and Selbst, 1994; Figure 5 and Table 2). 14, 569–586. Recently, Boot et al. These changes appeared to be correlated with the DA imbalance in the limbic system. 2016, 61–72. Front. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acw009, Heilman, K. M., Nadeau, S. E., and Beversdorf, D. O. Front. In the meantime, proposed solutions are constructed based on the most common and accessible information within a distinct specialty, which leads to a fixation effect. 35, 308–325. doi: 10.1080/09658211003702171, Jung, R. E., Mead, B. S., Carrasco, J., and Flores, R. A. J. Neurophysiol. Consequently, mood shifts are crucial in scaling creativity. Hum. 2. endobj J. Psychophysiol. The elements of shared vulnerability included the following: (1) cognitive disinhibition (it brings more stimuli into conscious awareness); (2) an attentional style (which is driven by novelty salience); and (3) a neural hyperconnectivity (which may increase associations between diverse stimuli). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079272, Keywords: creativity, cognitive flexibility, persistence, artistic shifts, emotion, reward, brain illness, neuromodulators, Citation: Khalil R, Godde B and Karim AA (2019) The Link Between Creativity, Cognition, and Creative Drives and Underlying Neural Mechanisms. (2018). Intelligence 46, 73–83. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.02.009, Zhu, F., Zhang, Q., and Qiu, J. 0000024629 00000 n This finding reveals that women might refer to a tendency for a different effective strategy for processing verbal information to create a more original solution in the verbal task to receive a cash reward; thus, the promise of monetary reward is favorable for creative thinking and original solutions. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12163, Folley, B. S., Doop, M. L., and Park, S. (2003). Neurosci. Employers want to know you don’t just say the same thing to everyone – that you think critically about who you’re talking to, deeply listen, and tailor communication to that person. Q���; �Z�=� ��|�?V��O����[�����Z(��/�%��NX���$,,5���� ��J�PD� O�D���@U�(t��&��؎��D�i���e=��3�H�}#��d:I��Z*�PD;�46���W�HQ�(^!H�V�!�c�$ ���y� pSJC���|�>�?L1�k��-��39)�p,��*�t�G� O�3�����x~y�h��;��y xzc�dV����ӈ�7�{ G���~^��sD�z�HC W�����a< &�䵷��E�]{��!�Hn�A�z&RW�J���yĠki�3:YR B��p�P:��; �Q6��� ����������/�Rox�t������Ŕ%��Q[G�z�(�D�����^�,^���A���`�Љ�B��%� The developmental relationship between central dopaminergic level and response inhibition from late childhood to young adulthood. 45, 471–486. The flexibility pathway suggests stimulating creativity through a flexible switching between categories, approaches, and sets while the persistence pathway leads to creativity through hard work, systematic and effortful exploration of possibilities, and in-depth exploration of just a few categories (Nijstad et al., 2010). doi: 10.1002/cad.20153, Chen, C. X., Williamson, M. G., and Zhou, F. H. (2012). Neuroimage 19, 365–375. A. Also, Lin et al. Another study revealed that DT was positively correlated with the strength of the RSFC between the mPFC and the MTG (Wei et al., 2014). (2014). B., Butt, A. E., Kaufman, J. C., and Colbert-White, E. N. (2011). Creative thinking skills can be considered one of the key competencies for the twenty-first century—they allow us to remain flexible and provide us with the capacity to deal with the opportunities and challenges that are part of our complex and fast-changing world. The dual pathway to creativity model: creative ideation as a function of flexibility and persistence. The creative cognition is based on various cognitive functions such as cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, working memory (WM) updating, fluency, originality, and insights. 28, 834–844. Unleashing angst: negative mood, learning goal orientation, psychological empowerment and creative behavior. A., and De Dreu, C. K. W. (2015). Surprisingly, negative-deactivating moods together with approach motivation and a promotion focus (e.g., sadness) did not link with creativity. PLoS One 8:e79272. (2010). Filled symbols represent left hemispheric brain regions, open symbols represent right hemispheric regions. 11, 1011–1026. Therefore, a better understanding of the neural correlates and the underlying neural mechanisms related to creative ideation is crucial and valuable. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.8.1329, Surmeier, D. J., Graves, S. M., and Shen, W. (2014). Creativity and innovative thinking have been a vast construct of questioning to scholars, psychologists, therapists and, more lately, neuroscientists (Jung et al., 2010). Noradrenergic modulation of cognitive flexibility in problem solving. 67, 229–242. For example, the spontaneous process happens when the attentional system does not actively choose (decide or select) the content to become conscious, enabling unconscious thoughts that are relatively further random, unfiltered, and unusual to be represented in WM. Furthermore, de Souza et al. doi: 10.1177/070674371105600303, Fleming, K. A., Heintzelman, S. J., and Bartholow, B. D. (2016). doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.09.007, Akiskal, H. S., Placidi, G. F., Maremmani, I., Signoretta, S., Liguori, A., Gervasi, R., et al. (2011) explored the association between brain activity during the N-back task as widely used WM paradigm (Jaeggi et al., 2010) and a psychometric measure of creativity (with a DT test). Building the Skillsets for Cognitive Flexibility Psychol. Child Adolesc. /E 33610 Brain Res. Moreover, we discussed potential candidate genes for creativity. The cognitive neuroscience of creativity. Most of us just go with the flow, which is fine. Cambridge Core - Educational Psychology - Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development - edited by James C. Kaufman Third, innovative behavior such as creating a tool or exhibiting a behavior with the specific recognition that it is novel and different was described as being especially reliant upon the PFC and the balance between left-and-right hemispheric functions. Accumulated evidence suggests a strong connection between developing the drive of creativity and a number of brain illnesses (i.e., depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis, PD, temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs); see Flaherty, 2011, see also Flaherty, 2005; Carson, 2011; Abraham et al., 2012; Mula et al., 2016), other studies questioned the relation between madness and genius (Kyaga, 2014). Their study provided a shred of evidence for the implication of COMT in creative potential, which suggests that DA-related genes may act in coordination to contribute to creativity. This finding was coupled with task-induced deactivation (TID) in the precuneus (as part of the DMN, i.e., the brain network that is functional during the resting state), and correlated with higher DT. The role of (dis)inhibition in creativity: decreased inhibition improves idea generation. The prediction of creativity through EFs (i.e., shifting, inhibition and WM) requires an optimal balance between deliberate (controlled) processing and spontaneous processing. Psychol. Individ. Although these features are essential elements for creativity, case studies revealed the evolution of creativity during PD. doi: 10.1080/10463281003765323, Perlovsky, L. I., and Levine, D. S. (2012). doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2017.01.005, Lucas, B. J., and Nordgren, L. F. (2015). Psychosom. 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