A review of EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies of creativity and insight.

A Dietrich, R Kanso - Psychological bulletin, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Creativity is a cornerstone of what makes us human, yet the neural mechanisms underlying
creative thinking are poorly understood. A recent surge of interest into the neural …

The neuroscience of intelligence: Empirical support for the theory of multiple intelligences?

CB Shearer, JM Karanian - Trends in neuroscience and education, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective: The concept of intelligence has been strongly debated since the introduction of IQ
tests in the early 1900s. Numerous alternatives to unitary intelligence have achieved limited …

Neurocognitive poetics: methods and models for investigating the neuronal and cognitive-affective bases of literature reception

AM Jacobs - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory,
formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro) cognitive poetics has …

Neuroimaging creativity: a psychometric view

R Arden, RS Chavez, R Grazioplene… - Behavioural brain research, 2010 - Elsevier
Many studies of creative cognition with a neuroimaging component now exist; what do they
say about where and how creativity arises in the brain? We reviewed 45 brain-imaging …

The fictive brain: neurocognitive correlates of engagement in literature

AM Jacobs, RM Willems - Review of General Psychology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we
focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience …

A convolution neural networks scheme for classification of motor imagery EEG based on wavelet time-frequecy image

HK Lee, YS Choi - 2018 International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motor imagery classification using electroencephalogram (EEG) is increasingly becoming
popular in brain-computer interface (BCI) field. In this paper, we present a novel convolution …

Creativity and cognitive control: Behavioral and ERP evidence that divergent thinking, but not real-life creative achievement, relates to better cognitive control

DL Zabelina, G Ganis - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Two studies used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine whether and how divergent
thinking and creative achievement are linked to attentional flexibility and cognitive control as …

Once more with feeling: Normative data for the aha experience in insight and noninsight problems

ME Webb, DR Little, SJ Cropper - Behavior research methods, 2018 - Springer
Despite the presumed ability of insight problems to elicit the subjective feeling of insight, as
well as the use of so-called insight problems to investigate this phenomenon for over 100 …

The roles of the temporal lobe in creative insight: an integrated review

W Shen, Y Yuan, C Liu, J Luo - Thinking & Reasoning, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Recent studies have revealed that the temporal lobe, a cortical region thought to be in
charge of episodic and semantic memory, is involved in creative insight. This work examines …

Neural correlates of Eureka moment

G Sprugnoli, S Rossi, A Emmendorfer, A Rossi… - Intelligence, 2017 - Elsevier
Insight processes that peak in “unpredictable moments of exceptional thinking” are often
referred to as Aha! or Eureka moments. During insight, connections between previously …