Abstract
Creativity is the ability to produce original and valuable ideas or behaviors. In real life, artistic and scientific creativity promoted the development of human civilization; however, to date, no studies have systematically investigated differences in the brain structures responsible for artistic and scientific creativity in a large sample. Using voxel-based morphometry (VBM), this study identified differences in regional gray matter volume (GMV) across the brain between artistic and scientific creativity (assessed by the Creative Achievement Questionnaire) in 356 young, healthy subjects. The results showed that artistic creativity was significantly negatively associated with the regional GMV of the supplementary motor area (SMA) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). In contrast, scientific creativity was significantly positively correlated with the regional GMV of the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) and left inferior occipital gyrus (IOG). Overall, artistic creativity was associated with the salience network (SN), whereas scientific creativity was associated with the executive attention network and semantic processing. These results may provide an effective marker that can be used to predict and evaluate individuals’ creative performance in the fields of science and art.
Highlights
Range elective course in addition to their required courses
We investigated the association between GMV of brain regions and scientific creativity in the same way just like artistic creativity
The current study explored brain regions associated with artistic and scientific creativity using VBM
Summary
Range elective course in addition to their required courses. This classification of courses implicitly drives people into two ways of thinking: artistic and scientific. Numerous studies of brain injury have revealed that artistic creativity is closely associated with the right lateral prefrontal cortex[15], the right neocortex[16], the left ventral thalamus[17], bilateral frontal temporal lobe, anterior hippocampus, bilateral temporal pole, inferior temporal gyrus, MTG and left amygdala[18]. Several neuroimaging and electrophysiology studies have explored the neural basis of scientific creativity The results of these studies indicated that scientific creativity is closely associated with the frontal lobe, parietal lobe and cingulate gyrus[27]. We believe the results will provide an effective marker that can be used to predict and evaluate individuals’ creative performance in the fields of science and art
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