The cognitive neuroscience of creativity

By Arne Dietrich. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Musical imagination: Perception and production, beauty and creativity (2012, background): “I consider its relationship with music cognition as manifested in theoretical models such as Ockelford’s (2007) proposed ‘music module’ in working memory, and in Dietrich’s (2004) (non-musical) propositions concerning the neuroscientific origins of creativity, which also exist in working memory.”
Can counter-stereotypes boost flexible thinking? (2013, background): “…logic and reasoning tasks, thoughtful reading comprehension (Schmeichel et al., 2003), and creative idea generation (Baas, De Dreu, & Nijstad, 2011; Dietrich, 2004; Gocłowska & Crisp, 2012; Golden, 1975; Groborz & Nęcka, 2003).3 To avoid the impact of cognitive depletion, we needed to find a…”
The dual pathway to creativity model: Creative ideation as a function of flexibility and persistence (2010, background): “Therefore, an evaluation mechanism (an ‘‘idea monitor’’) is needed to judge the appropriateness of generated responses (also Dietrich, 2004; Iyer et al., 2009), and cognitive processes need to be adjusted when ‘‘getting off track’’, which requires at least some control mechanisms that keep our…”
Revenge of the “Neurds”: Characterizing Creative Thought in Terms of the Structure and Dynamics of Memory (2010, background): “Recent studies have found evidence that different kinds of creativity (deliberate vs. spontaneous, and emotional vs. cognitive) involve different neural circuits (Dietrich, 2004).”
A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological (2020, result): “And yet, despite these early advances, the social and cultural psychology of creativity remained relatively marginal in the early 2000s, at least compared with the attention received by individual-based, cognitive neuroscience research into this phenomenon (see Dietrich, 2004).”
Enhancing creativity by means of cognitive stimulation: Evidence from an fMRI study (2010, background): “Most recently, creativity has also been approached from the neuroscientific perspective (Dietrich, 2004, 2007; Jung et al., 2009, 2010).”
Exploring the neurological basis of design cognition using brain imaging: some preliminary results (2009, background): “Creative thinking is also largely attributed to the activation of brain circuits in the prefrontal cortex, although other areas such as the temporal lobe are also found to be involved (see Dietrich, 2004 ).”
Motor Creativity and Creative Thinking in Children: The Diverging Role of Inhibition (2011, background): “Thus, the second aim of this study was to assess whether inhibition and working memory updating, which are involved in creative thinking (Dietrich, 2004), are similarly or differently involved in motor creativity.”
Incubation, insight, and creative problem solving: a unified theory and a connectionist model. (2010, background): “with Dijksterhuis et al. (2006), which showed that an important reason for why “unconscious” thinkers often made superior decisions had to do with the way decision makers “weighed” the relative importance of various soft constraints.”
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity: A Critical Review (2011, background): “Dietrich (2004) hypothesized that conscious and deliberate creativity is driven by the front of the brain, but that spontaneous insight emerges from three cortices behind and under the frontal cortex—the temporal, occipital, and parietal (TOP).”