Highlights•We review cognitive mechanisms of brain networks supporting creative
cognition.•Mechanisms include memory retrieval, response inhibition, and internal …

Highlights•Creativity involves two phases, a generation phase and an evaluation
phase.•Stringent evaluation hinders divergent thinking abilities.•Environmental factors affect …

Creativity is associated with finding novel, surprising, and useful solutions. We argue that
creative cognitive processes, divergent thinking, abstraction, and improvisation are …

Creativity is the ability to generate original and useful products, and it is considered central
to the progression of human civilization. As a noninherited emerging process, creativity may …

Studies have been conducted to investigate the components involved in generating creative
outcomes. Divergent and convergent thinking are the most extensively studied components …

Can we better understand the unique mechanisms of de novo abilities in light of our current
knowledge of the psychological and neuroscientific literature on creativity? This review …

The neuroscience of creativity seeks to disentangle the complex brain processes that
underpin the generation of novel ideas. Neuroimaging studies of functional connectivity …

Recent studies of creative cognition have revealed interactions between functional brain
networks involved in the generation of novel ideas; however, the neural basis of creativity is …

Recent studies have highlighted both similarities and differences between the cognitive
processing that underpins memory retrieval and that which underpins creative thinking. To …

Malevolent creativity, as one dark side of creativity, refers to manifestations people propose
to harm themselves or others materially, mentally, or physically in an innovative way. This …