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Amna Ghani; Caroline Di Bernardi Luft; Smadar Ovadio-Caro; Klaus-Robert Müller; Joydeep Bhattacharya – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Chance favors the prepared mind, said Louis Pasteur. Sometimes, significant breakthroughs occur when we creatively integrate new information, leading to a creative insight or an Aha! moment, while at other times when we fail to use a clue, we remain stuck in our habitual thinking patterns. In this study, we hypothesized that the brain's transient…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Intuition
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Lundie, Michael; Dasara, Harshith; Beeghly, Christopher; Kazmi, Ali; Krawczyk, Daniel – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2022
The objective of this study was to measure the contribution of the left frontopolar cortex (FPC) to analogical reasoning. Our measure of analogical reasoning derives from performance on the radiation problem, a creative problem-solving task first used in Gestalt psychology (Duncker, 1945). Success on this task is as low as 10 % without the…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Logical Thinking, Creative Thinking
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Peña, Javier; Sampedro, Agurne; Gómez-Gastiasoro, Ainara; Ibarretxe-Bilbao, Naroa; Zubiaurre-Elorza, Leire; Aguiar, Covadonga; Ojeda, Natalia – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) increases performance in some perceptual tasks. However, little is known about its effect on creativity. Although dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been postulated as an important cortical area related to creativity, the relative role of left and right DLPFC is still unclear. We aimed to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Acoustics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Creative Thinking