Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University Jabriya, Kuwait ; Department of Clinical Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen Giessen, Germany.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Jun 5;7:246. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00246. eCollection 2013.
Our ability to think creatively is one of the factors that generates excitement in our lives as it introduces novelty and opens up new possibilities to our awareness which in turn lead to developments in a variety of fields from science and technology to art and culture. While research on the influence of biologically-based variables on creativity has a long history, the advent of modern techniques for investigating brain structure and function in the past two decades have resulted in an exponential increase in the number of neuroscientific studies that have explored creativity. The field of creative neurocognition is a rapidly growing area of research that can appear chaotic and inaccessible because of the heterogeneity associated with the creativity construct and the many approaches through which it can be examined. There are also significant methodological and conceptual problems that are specific to the neuroscientific study of creativity that pose considerable limitations on our capacity to make true advances in understanding the brain basis of creativity. This article explores three key issues that need to be addressed so that barriers in the way of relevant progress being made within the field can be avoided. Are creativity neuroimaging paradigms optimal enough?What makes creative cognition different from normative cognition?Do we need to distinguish between types of creativity?
我们的创造性思维能力是激发生活乐趣的因素之一，因为它为我们的意识带来了新颖性和新的可能性，从而在科学技术、艺术文化等各个领域带来了发展。虽然基于生物学变量对创造力的影响的研究由来已久，但过去二十年中用于研究大脑结构和功能的现代技术的出现，使得探索创造力的神经科学研究数量呈指数级增长。创造性神经认知领域是一个快速发展的研究领域，由于与创造力结构相关的异质性以及可以通过多种方式进行检查，因此可能显得混乱且难以理解。还有一些与创造力的神经科学研究相关的重大方法学和概念问题，这些问题极大地限制了我们理解创造力的大脑基础的能力。本文探讨了三个需要解决的关键问题，以便避免该领域相关进展的障碍。创造力神经影像学范式是否足够优化？创造性认知与规范认知有何不同？我们是否需要区分不同类型的创造力？
