Abstract

=== Novel information selection is a crucial process in creativity and was found to be associated with frontal–temporal functional connectivity in the right brain in closed-ended creativity. Since it has distinct cognitive processing from closed-ended creativity, the information selection in open-ended creativity might be underlain by different neural activity. To address this issue, a creative generation task of Chinese two-part allegorical sayings was adopted, and the trials were classified into novel and normal solutions according to participants’ self-ratings. The results showed that (1) novel solutions induced a higher lower alpha power in the temporal area, which might be associated with the automatic, unconscious mental process of retrieving extensive semantic information, and (2) upper alpha power in both frontal and temporal areas and frontal–temporal alpha coherence were higher in novel solutions than in normal …

Recommended citation: Zhou S, Chen S, Wang S, Zhao Q, Zhou Z, & Lu C. (2018). Temporal and spatial patterns of neural activity associated with information selection in open-ended creativity. Neuroscience, 371, 268-276.
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