Creativity and personality interaction: complex psychological and EEG study

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Event Abstract Back to Event Creativity and personality interaction: complex psychological and EEG study Olga Razumnikova1* and Artem Perfilev1 1 Research Institute of Physiology of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Russia As task-induced brain activity has been associated with individual differences in spontaneous EEG oscillations, the aim of the present study was to explore the relationships between creativity, personality and baseline cortical activity. In psychological part of study 104 university students completed Russian versions of the Eysenck’s EPQ and Cloninger’s TCI, and performed figural and verbal creative tasks. EEG was recorded in 40 university students while resting before a performing of heuristic task. Positive correlations between psychoticism and originality scores were obtained only in figural creative tests. Figural creativity also had positive relationships with “Novelty seeking” and “Persistence” traits. The specific influence of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism on creativity-baseline EEG power relationship was found in different frequency bands using ANOVAs. Extraversion moderates creativity-related cortical activity in the alpha1, and beta oscillations in both anterior-posterior and left-right direction. Creative and low neurotic persons had largest amount of the theta1 interhemispheric coherence in the posterior than in the anterior cortex was significant, and creative and high neurotic subjects characterized by greater alpha2 power in all areas excluding temporal region. Higher beta2 power scores in occipital vs. frontal/temporal areas were significant only in creative and high neuroticism group. Psychoticism was associated with different asymmetry of intrahemispheric theta1 coherence. “Novelty seeking” personality trait negatively correlated with interahemispheric beta2 coherence focused in the anterior area of the left hemisphere.Thus, successful creative thinking is characterized by functional plasticity in baseline neuronal oscillations and hemispheric asymmetry via additive effects of different personality traits. The research was supported by a grant from the Russian Humanities Science Research Foundation (08-06-00615a). Conference: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting, Rhodes Island, Greece, 13 Sep - 18 Sep, 2009. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Poster presentations Citation: Razumnikova O and Perfilev A (2009). Creativity and personality interaction: complex psychological and EEG study. Conference Abstract: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.08.2009.09.273 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 12 Jun 2009; Published Online: 12 Jun 2009. * Correspondence: Olga Razumnikova, Research Institute of Physiology of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, razum@physiol.ru Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Olga Razumnikova Artem Perfilev Google Olga Razumnikova Artem Perfilev Google Scholar Olga Razumnikova Artem Perfilev PubMed Olga Razumnikova Artem Perfilev Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.