Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, 400715, China.
Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, No.2, TianSheng Road, Beibei district, Chongqing, 400715, China.
Brain Imaging Behav. 2020 Oct;14(5):1498-1506. doi: 10.1007/s11682-019-00077-9.
Creativity is very important and is linked to almost all areas of our everyday life. Improving creativity brings great benefits. Various strategies and training paradigms have been used to stimulate creative thinking. These training approaches have been confirmed to be effective. However, whether or not training can reshape the resting-state brain is still unclear. The present study examined whether or not the divergent thinking training intervention can reshape the resting-state brain functional connectivity (FC). Static seed-based and dynamic approaches were used to explore this problem. Results demonstrate significant changes in static and dynamic FCs. FCs, such as dorsal anterior cingulate cortex-inferior parietal lobule, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex-precuneus and left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, was significantly improved through the training. Furthermore, the temporal variability of the supplementary motor area and middle temporal gyrus was improved. These results indicate that divergent thinking training may lead to resting-state brain plasticity. Considering the role of these regions in brain networks, the present study further confirms the close relationship between the brain networks' dynamic interactions and divergent thinking processes.
创造力非常重要,与我们日常生活的几乎所有领域都息息相关。提高创造力会带来巨大的好处。已经使用了各种策略和训练范例来激发创造性思维。这些训练方法已被证实是有效的。然而,培训是否可以重塑静息态大脑尚不清楚。本研究探讨了发散思维训练干预是否可以重塑静息态大脑功能连接(FC)。使用静态种子和动态方法来探索这个问题。结果表明静息态和动态 FC 都发生了显著变化。通过训练,背侧前扣带皮层-下顶叶、背侧前扣带皮层-后扣带回和左右外侧前额叶的 FC 得到了显著改善。此外,补充运动区和颞中回的时间可变性也得到了改善。这些结果表明发散思维训练可能导致静息态大脑的可塑性。考虑到这些区域在大脑网络中的作用,本研究进一步证实了大脑网络的动态相互作用与发散思维过程之间的密切关系。