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Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics
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Creative thinking is central to the arts, sciences, and everyday life. How does the brain produce creative thought? A series of recently published papers has begun to provide insight into this question, reporting a strikingly similar pattern of brain activity and connectivity across a range of creative tasks and domains, from divergent thinking to poetry composition to musical improvisation. This research suggests that creative thought involves dynamic interactions of large-scale brain systems, with the most compelling finding being that the default and executive control networks, which can show an antagonistic relation, tend to cooperate during creative cognition and artistic performance. These findings have implications for understanding how brain networks interact to support complex cognitive processes, particularly those involving goal-directed, self-generated thought.
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This review argues that creative thinking emerges from dynamic interplay between default and executive control brain systems, especially when self-generated thought is guided by task goals. It synthesizes neuroimaging evidence from divergent thinking and artistic performance to propose that default regions generate candidate ideas while control regions evaluate and constrain them.
Key findings
- Across divergent thinking, poetry composition, musical improvisation, and visual art, studies report cooperation or coupling between default and control network regions, contrary to their usual antagonistic relationship.
- In a poetry composition study, ICA identified five hierarchical clusters, including default and control clusters; during spontaneous generation these clusters were negatively correlated, but their correlation increased during revision/evaluation.
- In musical improvisation, constraining pianists to specific pitch sets increased DLPFC coupling with motor-control regions, whereas expressing specific emotions increased DLPFC–default network connectivity.
- The proposed framework holds that the default network supplies candidate ideas from memory and self-generated thought, while the control network monitors, selects, inhibits, and modifies ideas to meet goals; coupling may weaken when goals are vague or top-down constraints are relaxed.
Methods
- Narrative review and integrative framework, not a primary empirical study.
- Draws on recent fMRI and functional connectivity studies of domain-general creativity (e.g., alternate uses divergent thinking) and domain-specific artistic performance (music, poetry, visual art).
- Synthesizes findings from cited experiments using seed-based, dynamic functional connectivity, ICA, and univariate analyses to support a default–control interaction model.
Limitations
- Stated: the authors explicitly exclude research on creative insight and refer readers elsewhere; no formal limitations section is provided.
- Evident from the text: it is a selective narrative synthesis rather than a systematic review or meta-analysis, with no new data or quantitative pooling.
- Evident: conclusions rest on a limited set of cited neuroimaging studies across different tasks and domains, and the authors note default–control coupling is not ubiquitous, so boundary conditions remain to be clarified.
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In the paper
“Although self-generated thoughts can occur spontaneously in mind, they also have been shown to benefit from goal-directed processing and cognitive control [5].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Creativity, Cognitive Control, and Self-Generated Thought
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [5] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction describes self-generated thoughts as sometimes purposeful and related to personal goals, even though they can also arise without intent. The section on default and frontoparietal control network interactions says that some forms depend on executive resources, while the content regulation section links adaptive regulation to their benefits. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Such processes typically involve the top-down modulation of self-generated information [5].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Default and Executive Control Network Dynamics
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [5] source
In “Default and frontoparietal control network interactions” (page not provided), the paper says that goals served by the default network depend on top-down regulatory processes. It also describes default–control network cooperation as maintaining or evaluating self-generated information in the service of a goal. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Importantly, the default and control networks have also shown cooperation during several cognitive processes [8, 17–21].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Default and Executive Control Network Dynamics
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [8] source
The Results report recruitment of both default and executive network regions during mind wandering. The Discussion describes similar parallel recruitment during creative thinking and naturalistic film viewing, supporting the broader statement that the networks can cooperate during several cognitive processes. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Could not verifycites [17] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports activation of cognitive-control regions during reappraisal, but does not assess cooperation between default and control networks. Searches for “default mode” and “cooperation between default and control networks” found no passage addressing that relationship across cognitive processes. The indexed passages provide no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.75)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [18] source
- Supportedcites [19] source
The Discussion reports coupling between default-network and executive regions during goal-directed mental simulation. It also describes parallel activity in creative thinking, mind wandering, and autobiographical planning, supporting the broader statement about cooperation across several cognitive processes. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Supportedcites [20] source
The Introduction reports coactivation and coupling of default and executive regions during internally directed, goal-directed cognition. The Discussion describes interactions during the paper’s working-memory task and reports increased connectivity or activation in transitive reasoning and social working-memory tasks. Together, these passages support the broad claim that the networks cooperate across several cognitive processes. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Supportedcites [21] source
The Discussion reports cooperation between the default mode network (DMN) and frontoparietal network (FPN) during a working-memory task. It also describes a similar pattern of network activity across future planning, creative thought, decisions about future rewards, and social memory, supporting the broader claim about several cognitive processes. No page number is supplied in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“We suspect that memory systems may play a key role in the generation of candidate ideas across domain-general and domain-specific contexts (cf. [52]).”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [52] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction links memory search and retrieval to generating unusual associations and a larger pool of novel ideas. The Discussion proposes that semantic-memory structure constrains search in the Remote Associates Test. These passages support a role for memory in generating candidate ideas, but they do not establish that role across both domain-general and domain-specific contexts. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“Moreover, a study of healthy young and older adults reported that performance on the alternate uses task was positively correlated with the number of episodic details that participants reported when they imagined future personal experiences [71].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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- Supportedcites [71] source
The Results ("Relation between Divergent Thinking and Episodic Simulation"; page unavailable) report that all five divergent-thinking measures correlated significantly with internal episodic details in imagined future events. The Methods identify the measure as the Alternative Uses Task, and the study included young and older adults. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Moreover, a functional connectivity analysis revealed increased coupling of default and control network regions during idea evaluation, consistent with the poetry composition study described above [34].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Network Interaction During Artistic Performance
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [27] source
- Supportedcites [34] source
The Results (Functional Connectivity during Generation and Revision Phases; page not available) report that anticorrelation between MPFC- and DLPFC/IPS-centered clusters during poetry generation was markedly attenuated during revision. The Discussion describes revision as potentially involving evaluation. The citation supports the stated consistency with the poetry study; it is not offered as the source of the visual-artists finding. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“Recent research points to an important role of the default network and episodic memory in creative cognition ([50–51]; see Box 1).”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [50] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (‘The generation of new vs. old ideas’; page unavailable) proposes that episodic-memory recall may be crucial for generating novel ideas. The Discussion (‘Divergent thinking effects’; page unavailable) reports deactivation of default-mode-network regions during divergent thinking, but interprets it as possibly reflecting general goal-directed processing, not an important creative role for the network. (LLM, conf=0.82)
- Supportedcites [51] source
In the Discussion’s ‘Neural correlates of metaphor production’ section (page not supplied), the authors report activation of regions associated with the default mode network during metaphor production and link the PCC to episodic memory retrieval. They also describe creative ideas as recombinations of memory elements, supporting the citing sentence’s broad, hedged claim. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Whole-brain functional connectivity analysis was used to identify a network of brain regions associated with divergent thinking, which included several regions of the default, control, and salience networks (see Figure 1A).”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Network Interaction During Domain-General Creative Cognition
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- Supportedcites [26] source
The Present Research section states that participants performed an alternate-uses divergent thinking task during fMRI and that whole-brain connectivity was analyzed. The Discussion states that this analysis identified a distributed network containing default, executive (control), and salience network regions. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The default network has shown robust activation when people imagine future experiences [14, 22–23].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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The “Neural and cognitive similarities” section reports activation in brain regions that substantially overlap with the default network when people imagine the future. It also explicitly describes studies showing default-network activity during future imagination; the copy does not provide a page number. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“For example, the default and control networks show cooperation during autobiographical future planning—constructing a detailed and sequential mental representation about a future goal state [10, 19, 24].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Default and Executive Control Network Dynamics
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- Supportedcites [10] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports that the frontoparietal control network coupled with the default network during autobiographical planning. The Tasks section describes participants sequencing steps and obstacles into a personal plan for achieving a goal and rating the plan’s detail. These passages support both the network cooperation and the characterization of the planning task; page numbers were not provided. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Supportedcites [19] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction describes planning for a future goal as integrating relevant information and envisioning a sequence of actions. The Discussion reports coactivity of default-network and cognitive-control regions during autobiographical planning, and relates that finding to the paper’s own goal-directed simulation results. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [24] source
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“The default network consists of midline and posterior inferior parietal regions that show increased metabolic activity in the absence of most externally-presented cognitive tasks [12].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Default and Executive Control Network Dynamics
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [12] source
The Discussion identifies medial prefrontal, posterior cingulate and precuneus regions as part of a default state when a person is not engaged in an attention-demanding task; it also identifies lateral parietal cortex as part of the system. The paper reports that these regions decrease in activity during cognitive tasks, consistent with greater activity in their absence. It does not use the precise label “posterior inferior parietal,” but the anatomical paraphrase does not change the central claim. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“The control network consists of lateral prefrontal and anterior inferior parietal regions, and its activity is associated with cognitive processes that require externally-directed attention, including working memory, relational integration, and task-set switching [15].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Default and Executive Control Network Dynamics
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- Partly supportedcites [15] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The ICA and Functional significance sections describe an executive-control network including lateral prefrontal and lateral parietal regions, associated with attention, working memory, and control. The Executive functioning section also describes switching between mental sets, but the copy does not identify the parietal region specifically as anterior inferior or link the network to relational integration. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Default network activity is associated with spontaneous and self-generated thought, including mind-wandering, mental simulation, social cognition, autobiographical retrieval, and episodic future thinking [5, 13–14].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Default and Executive Control Network Dynamics
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [5] source
In “The default network plays an active role in self-generated cognition” (page not supplied), the paper links default-network activity to mind-wandering and spontaneous thought. The same section describes increased activity during autobiographical retrieval, imagining scenes, thinking about the future, and inferring others’ mental states, supporting the listed examples. (LLM, conf=0.94)
- Supportedcites [13] source
The “Internal mentation or external attention?” section links default-network activity to spontaneous thought and mind-wandering. The sections on the MTL subsystem, dMPFC subsystem, and aMPFC/PCC hubs describe its involvement in memory-based simulation, autobiographical recollection, future-event simulation, and social cognition. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“During working memory tasks, for example, the control network typically shows increased activation while the default network deactivates, presumably reflecting the suppression of task-unrelated thoughts during cognitive control [16].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Default and Executive Control Network Dynamics
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- Supportedcites [16] source
In “Functional relevance of DMN deactivation” (page unavailable), the review says visual working memory robustly activates a task-positive frontoparietal attention network whose activity is often anticorrelated with the DMN. The same section reports DMN suppression during working-memory tasks and presents disengagement from distracting thoughts such as mind-wandering as a hypothesis, consistent with the claim’s tentative wording. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“This correlation with divergent thinking, however, was specific to imagined future events and was not observed for recalled or imagined past events.”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [71] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (Relation between Divergent Thinking and Episodic Simulation; page unavailable) report that all five Alternative Uses measures correlated significantly with episodic detail in imagined future events. But elaboration also correlated significantly with detail in imagined past events and showed a trend for recalled past events. The paper further reports no significant difference between the future and imagined-past relationships, so the claim of a future-specific correlation overstates the findings. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Our model builds on a seminal theory [28] that suggested that the default and control networks may contribute to idea generation and selection, respectively, by means of the evolutionary processes of blind variation and selective retention (cf. [30–31]).”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Default and Executive Control Network Dynamics
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- Partly supportedcites [28] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Creativity as blind variation and selective retention” (page unavailable), Jung links blind variation to generating ideas and selective retention to filtering them. In “What does it all mean?” (page unavailable), the paper proposes the default mode network as a setting for sequential BVSR, but it does not assign idea selection specifically to the cognitive control network. The claimed division of labor between the two networks is therefore not fully supported. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“Idea generation is often conceived as a bottom-up process associated with diffuse attention, whereas idea evaluation is thought to involve focused attention and cognitive control [28].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Network Interaction During Artistic Performance
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [28] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Creativity as blind variation and selective retention” (page unavailable), the paper describes generating many novel ideas and then filtering them for usefulness. “What does it all mean?” (page unavailable) links disinhibition to generating multiple ideas without refinement or selection. These passages support the generation–evaluation distinction, but do not characterize generation as bottom-up or explicitly link evaluation to focused attention and cognitive control. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“In the study of study of poetry composition [34], for example, poets were simply asked to spontaneously generate novel poetry—not to engage a generative strategy, as in the study of musical improvisation (e.g., [35])—so the top-down functions of the control network were not required.”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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- Partly supportedcites [34] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Methods (Experimental Design; page not supplied) say participants were asked to spontaneously generate a novel poem, with no prescribed generative strategy. The Results (Brain Activations During Generation of New Poems in All Subjects; page not supplied) report decreased activity in DLPFC and IPS during generation, but decreased activity does not establish that top-down control was unnecessary. The Discussion (Expertise; page not supplied) also suggests novices may rely more on prefrontal control. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“It has previously been suggested that the default and control networks will cooperate to generate and maintain an “internal train of thought” [65] or during the extended evaluation of internal information [5].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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Citation [5] is attached to the extended evaluation of internal information, not the quoted “internal train of thought” attributed to [65]. In “Default and frontoparietal control network interactions” (page not provided), the paper says default and control networks can cooperate in tasks requiring the maintenance or extended evaluation of internal information. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Critically, administering the specificity induction increased the number of appropriate uses that participants generated on a subsequent alternate uses task, and also increased episodic details on a future simulation task [72].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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Experiment 1 Results report that the specificity induction increased appropriate uses on the alternate uses task. Experiment 1 Discussion reports that it also increased episodic details when participants imagined future events. Page numbers are not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“But this negative correlation was markedly attenuated during idea evaluation, possibly due to increased task demands and top-down control required.”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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- Partly supportedcites [34] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results and Discussion (Functional Connectivity; The Creative Process, pages unavailable) report that anticorrelation between the MPFC-associated and attention/control clusters was markedly attenuated during poetry revision, when top-down attention was reengaged. The paper describes idea evaluation as a component of revision, but it did not measure the correlation during a separate idea-evaluation condition or establish increased task demands as its cause. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Indeed, the authors reported increased activation of default regions during poetry generation, and a functional connectivity analysis revealed a negative correlation between default and control network regions during generation.”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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- Partly supportedcites [34] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results sections on brain activations and functional connectivity report increased MPFC activity during poetry generation and a significant anticorrelation between MPFC-centered and DLPFC/IPS-centered clusters. But the broader claim that default regions increased activation overstates the findings: the activation results also report decreased activity in the precuneus, and the connectivity results group portions of the precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex with DLPFC/IPS. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Self-generated thoughts arise from internally-focused mental activity that is largely independent of external input [4].”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Creativity, Cognitive Control, and Self-Generated Thought
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“Creativity is a broadly defined construct, but it is generally assumed to involve the generation of some product that is both novel and useful [1–3].”
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“In general, we contend that the default network influences the generation of candidate ideas, but that the control network can constrain and direct this process to meet task-specific goals via top-down monitoring and executive control.”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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“Default-control network coupling is not ubiquitous, however, as the networks have shown both cooperation and competition during creative thinking tasks.”
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“At the univariate level of analysis, idea generation was associated with widespread activity of default regions, whereas idea evaluation was associated with both default (e.g., MPFC and PCC) and control network activity (e.g., DLPFC and ACC).”
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“Generating semantically-distant verbs—responses that were remotely associated with nouns, assessed via Latent Semantic Analysis—was associated with activation of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), a hub of the default network; moreover, as the semantic distance between the noun and verb increased, the MPFC showed greater coupling with the ventral ACC.”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Network Interaction During Domain-General Creative Cognition
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“Creativity researchers have long speculated that creative thought involves a two-stage process of idea generation and idea evaluation [49].”
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“These studies suggest that generating new ideas in poetry and visual art may benefit from self-generated thoughts originating in the default network, but that such ideas may require top-down modulation during evaluation, thus reflected in default-control network coupling.”
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“The control network may therefore maintain an “internal train of thought” by keeping the task goal activated, inhibiting aesthetically undesirable or goal-incongruent melodic sequences, and strategically searching memory for goal-congruent sequences.”
§ Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics > Brain Networks and Creative Cognition: An Integrative Framework
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“In this context, the default network may provide bottom-up evaluations via spontaneously-generated and self-referential mechanisms; the control network, in turn, may compare this information to the task goal and modify it via cognitive control mechanisms such as inhibition and selection.”
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“This emerging literature suggests that creative thought involves cooperation of the default and control networks—similar to other forms of goal-directed, self-generated thought—and that the extent of control network involvement may depend on the extent to which creative thought is constrained to meet specific task goals.”
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“A growing number of studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and functional connectivity analysis of fMRI data to assess dynamic interactions between large-scale brain systems, such as the default and executive control networks, during creative cognition and artistic performance.”
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Performance on laboratory creative tasks such as divergent thinking, poetry composition, and musical improvisation reflects creative cognition in real-world domains.
“We consider neuroimaging evidence related to both domain-general (e.g., divergent thinking) and domain-specific (e.g., musical improvisation) creative thought.”
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“Nevertheless, this overarching data pattern fits with emerging frameworks that emphasize the role of the core network and its flexible coupling with other networks in the service of goal-directed tasks that comprise multiple component processes, including divergent thinking”
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- Authors
- Beaty, R. E., Benedek, M., Silvia, P. J., & Schacter, D. L.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
- University of Graz (AT)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Beaty, Roger E.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-02
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 87-95
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4724474
- OpenAlex
- W2148406463
- Cited by
- 1,105
- References
- 76
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01ag008441-30)
- National Institute on Aging (R01-AG008441, R01AG08441)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH060941)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Keywords
- creative cognition, creative thinking, brain network dynamics, default mode network, frontoparietal network, divergent thinking, poetry composition, musical improvisation, self-generated thought, artistic performance
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Cognition, Creativity, Humans, Neural Pathways, Thinking
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-09-28, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-09-28 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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