Girn Manesh, Mills Caitlin, Roseman Leor, Carhart-Harris Robin L, Christoff Kalina
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
Neuroimage. 2020 Jun;213:116726. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116726. Epub 2020 Mar 8.
Contemporary investigations regard creativity as a dynamic form of cognition that involves movement between the dissociable stages of creative generation and creative evaluation. Our recently proposed Dynamic Framework of Thought (Christoff et al., 2016) offered a conceptualization of these stages in terms of an interplay between sources of constraint and variability on thought. This initial conceptualization, however, has yet to be fully explicated and given targeted discussion. Here, we refine this framework's account of creativity by highlighting the dynamic nature of creative thought, both within and between the stages of creative generation and evaluation. In particular, we emphasize that creative generation in particular is best regarded as a product of multiple, varying mental states, rather than being a singular mental state in and of itself. We also propose that the psychedelic state is a mental state with high potential for facilitating creative generation and update the Dynamic Framework of Thought to incorporate this state. This paper seeks to highlight the dynamic nature of the neurocognitive processes underlying creative thinking and to draw attention to the potential utility of psychedelic substances as experimental tools in the neuroscience of creativity.
当代研究将创造力视为一种动态的认知形式，它涉及在创造性生成和创造性评估这两个可分离阶段之间的转换。我们最近提出的思维动态框架（克里斯托夫等人，2016年）从思维中约束源和变异性来源之间的相互作用角度，对这些阶段进行了概念化。然而，这一初步概念化尚未得到充分阐释和针对性讨论。在此，我们通过强调创造性思维在创造性生成和评估阶段之内及之间的动态本质，对该框架关于创造力的阐述进行完善。具体而言，我们强调，尤其创造性生成最好被视为多种不同心理状态的产物，而不是其本身就是一种单一的心理状态。我们还提出，迷幻状态是一种极有可能促进创造性生成的心理状态，并对思维动态框架进行更新以纳入这种状态。本文旨在突出创造性思维背后神经认知过程的动态本质，并提请关注迷幻物质作为创造力神经科学实验工具的潜在效用。
