Abstract
This study, a group comparison between female painters (with an education in fine arts) with a nonartistic control-group is a study based on an interdisciplinary approach. Its purpose is to identify a possible relationship between EEG and creativity/abilities in fine arts. Hence, the study focuses on differences between these two groups (n = 19 each totaling n = 38) regarding their visual-cerebral processing strategies. By means of spectralanalysis two EEG parameters - amplitude and coherence - reflecting the synchronisation of neuronal networking are expressed as differential attention by visual-cognitive activities. The EEG was recorded from 19 electrodes (10:20-system) and six frequency bands between 1.5 to 31.5 Hz were used for the evaluation. The study presented focuses on the cognitive activity of silent reading of a (literary) text (four intervals of 1 minute each.) I found as a major result of the present study that reading was more bilaterally represented in the female painters' group and therefore less significantly lateralised. Within the control group a more significant engagement was found of the left hemisphere in the area of the region of the gyms angularis, the „reading region” in almost all frequency bands. The EEG correlates found in this study corroborate the hypothesis that the posterior parietal cortex represents the area of maximum multi-sensorial integration.
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