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- Title
Changes in Brain Activation Associated with Spontaneous Improvization and Figural Creativity After Design-Thinking-Based Training: A Longitudinal fMRI Study.
- Authors
Saggar, Manish; Quintin, Eve-Marie; Bott, Nicholas T.; Kienitz, Eliza; Chien, Yin-hsuan; Hong, Daniel W-C.; Liu, Ning; Royalty, Adam; Hawthorne, Grace; Reiss, Allan L.
- Abstract
Creativity is widely recognized as an essential skill for entrepreneurial success and adaptation to daily-life demands. However, we know little about the neural changes associated with creative capacity enhancement. For the first time, using a prospective, randomized control design, we examined longitudinal changes in brain activity associated with participating in a five-week design-thinking-based Creative Capacity Building Program (CCBP), when compared with Language Capacity Building Program (LCBP). Creativity, an elusive and multifaceted construct, is loosely defined as an ability to produce useful/appropriate and novel outcomes. Here,we focus on one of the facets of creative thinking--spontaneous improvization. Participantswere assessed preand post-intervention for spontaneous improvization skills using a game-like figural Pictionary-based fMRI task. Whole-brain group-by-time interaction revealed reduced task-related activity in CCBP participants (compared with LCBP participants) after training in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior/paracingulate gyrus, supplementary motor area, and parietal regions. Further, greater cerebellar--cerebral connectivity was observed in CCBP participants at post-intervention when compared with LCBP participants. In sum, our results suggest that improvization-based creative capacity enhancement is associated with reduced engagement of executive functioning regions and increased involvement of spontaneous implicit processing.
- Publication
Cerebral Cortex, 2017, Vol 27, Issue 7, p3542
- ISSN
1047-3211
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cercor/bhw171