Creativity is associated with a characteristic U-shaped function of alpha power changes accompanied by an early increase in functional coupling

To create or to recall original ideas: Brain processes associated with the imagination of novel object uses

(2018) Mathias Benedek et al.   CORTEX

EEG alpha activity during imagining creative moves in soccer decision-making situations

(2018) Andreas Fink et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

The creative brain in the figural domain: Distinct patterns of EEG alpha power during idea generation and idea elaboration

(2018) Christian Rominger et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity

(2018) Roger E. Beaty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Affective creativity meets classic creativity in the scanner

(2017) Corinna M. Perchtold et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Creativity as a distinct trainable mental state: An EEG study of musical improvisation

(2017) Joel A. Lopata et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Neural correlates of serial order effect in verbal divergent thinking

(2017) Meijuan Wang et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Allusive thinking (remote associations) and auditory top-down inhibition skills differentially predict creativity and positive schizotypy

(2017) Christian Rominger et al.   Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

The Use of Bright and Dark Types of Humour is Rooted in the Brain

(2017) Ilona Papousek et al.   Scientific Reports

The capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions

(2016) Ilona Papousek et al.   Brain Imaging and Behavior

Creative ways to well-being: Reappraisal inventiveness in the context of anger-evoking situations

(2016) Andreas Fink et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

(2016) Roger E. Beaty et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Functional neuroimaging of visual creativity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2016) Laura M. Pidgeon et al.   Brain and Behavior

Addressing a Paradox: Dual Strategies for Creative Performance in Introspective and Extrospective Networks

(2015) Ana Luísa Pinho et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

The neuroscience of musical improvisation

(2015) Roger E. Beaty   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Default and Executive Network Coupling Supports Creative Idea Production

(2015) Roger E. Beaty et al.   Scientific Reports

Creative motivation: Creative achievement predicts cardiac autonomic markers of effort during divergent thinking

(2014) Paul J. Silvia et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Affective processing in positive schizotypy: Loose control of social-emotional information

(2014) Ilona Papousek et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

The time-course of EEG alpha power changes in creative ideation

(2014) Daniela Schwab et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Alpha power increases in right parietal cortex reflects focused internal attention

(2014) Mathias Benedek et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest

(2014) Roger E. Beaty et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data

(2013) Gil Gonen-Yaacovi et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

To create or to recall? Neural mechanisms underlying the generation of creative new ideas

(2013) Mathias Benedek et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Decrease of prefrontal–posterior EEG coherence: Loose control during social–emotional stimulation

(2012) Eva M. Reiser et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Tackling creativity at its roots: Evidence for different patterns of EEG alpha activity related to convergent and divergent modes of task processing

(2012) Emanuel Jauk et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

EEG alpha power and creative ideation

(2012) Andreas Fink et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Evaluative and generative modes of thought during the creative process

(2011) Melissa Ellamil et al.   NEUROIMAGE

EEG alpha synchronization is related to top-down processing in convergent and divergent thinking

(2011) Mathias Benedek et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Differential frontal-parietal phase synchrony during hypnosis as a function of hypnotic suggestibility

(2011) Devin Blair Terhune et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Neuroimaging creativity: A psychometric view

(2010) Rosalind Arden et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Cross-regional cortical synchronization during affective image viewing

(2010) Vladimir Miskovic et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Brain correlates underlying creative thinking: EEG alpha activity in professional vs. novice dancers

(2009) Andreas Fink et al.   NEUROIMAGE