The role of memory in creative ideation

M Benedek, RE Beaty, DL Schacter… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Creativity reflects the remarkable human capacity to produce novel and effective ideas.
Empirical work suggests that creative ideas do not just emerge out of nowhere but typically …

Integration and differentiation of hippocampal memory traces

IK Brunec, J Robin, RK Olsen, M Moscovitch… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Prevailing theories of hippocampal function argue that memories are rapidly encoded by
non-overlapping memory traces. Concurrently, the hippocampus has been argued to …

Amygdala‐frontoparietal effective connectivity in creativity and humor processing

YC Chan, DC Zeitlen, RE Beaty - Human Brain Mapping, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although both creativity and humor elicit experiences of surprise followed by appreciation, it
remains unknown whether shared or distinct patterns of effective connectivity are involved in …

How subjective idea valuation energizes and guides creative idea generation.

A Lopez-Persem, S Moreno-Rodriguez… - American …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
What drives us to search for creative ideas, and why does it feel good to find one? While
previous studies demonstrated the positive influence of motivation on creative abilities, how …

[HTML][HTML] Two-in-one system and behavior-specific brain synchrony during goal-free cooperative creation: an analytical approach combining automated behavioral …

M Xu, S Morimoto, E Hoshino, K Suzuki… - …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
SignificanceIn hyperscanning studies of natural social interactions, behavioral coding is
usually necessary to extract brain synchronizations specific to a particular behavior. The …

[HTML][HTML] Functional EEG alpha activation patterns during malevolent creativity

CM Perchtold-Stefan, C Rominger, I Papousek, A Fink - Neuroscience, 2023 - Elsevier
On the dark side of creativity, creative ideation is intentionally used to damage others. This
first electroencephalogram (EEG) study on malevolent creativity investigated task-related …

Brain-based classification of youth with anxiety disorders: transdiagnostic examinations within the ENIGMA-Anxiety database using machine learning

WB Bruin, P Zhutovsky, GA van Wingen… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Neuroanatomical findings on youth anxiety disorders are notoriously difficult to replicate,
small in effect size and have limited clinical relevance. These concerns have prompted a …

[HTML][HTML] The features analysis of hemoglobin expression on visual information transmission pathway in early stage of Alzheimer's disease

X Li, P Tang, X Pang, X Song, J Xiong, L Yu, H Liu… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized primarily by
cognitive impairment. The motivation of this paper is to explore the impact of the visual …

From “Aha!” to “Haha!” using humor to cope with negative stimuli

X Wu, T Guo, C Zhang, TY Hong, CM Cheng… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Humor has been considered an effective emotion regulation strategy, and some behavioral
studies have examined its superior effects on negative emotion regulation. However, its …

Letting leaders spontaneously emerge yields better creative outcomes and higher leader–follower interbrain synchrony during creative group communication

Y He, X Wang, K Lu, N Hao - Cerebral Cortex, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This study aimed to investigate how the ways leaders arise (appointed vs. emergent) affect
the leader–follower interaction during creative group communication. Hyperscanning …