Individual Differences in Parietal and Premotor Activity during Spatial Cognition Predict Figural Creativity

Autor/inn/en	Cortes, Robert A.; Colaizzi, Griffin A.; Dyke, Emily L.; Peterson, Emily G.; Walker, Dakota L.; Kolvoord, Robert A.; Uttal, David H.; Green, Adam E.
Titel	Individual Differences in Parietal and Premotor Activity during Spatial Cognition Predict Figural Creativity
Quelle	In: Creativity Research Journal, 35 (2023) 1, S.23-32 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cortes, Robert A.) ORCID (Peterson, Emily G.) ORCID (Kolvoord, Robert A.) ORCID (Uttal, David H.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-0419
DOI	10.1080/10400419.2022.2049532
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Spatial Ability; Cognitive Processes; Individual Differences; Brain Hemisphere Functions; High School Students; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Individueller Unterschied; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	Creativity often requires envisioning novel connections and combinations among elements in space, e.g., to invent a new product or generate a work of art. A relationship between spatial cognition and creativity has been demonstrated at both the behavioral and neural levels, but the exact neurocognitive mechanisms that bridge this connection remain unclear. The present study tested whether individual differences in functional activation in spatial cognition-implicated brain regions (specifically focusing on premotor and superior parietal cortex) during mental rotation were associated with figural creativity in a composite object creation task. Functional activation in premotor and superior parietal cortex during a classical spatial task (mental rotation; MRT) has previously been causally linked with dissociable components of spatial cognition: superior parietal activity with abstract spatial representation, and premotor activity with active spatial manipulation. The present findings indicate that individual differences in functional activation of both superior parietal cortex and premotor cortex during MRT were associated with individual differences in figural creativity. The present data thus provide new evidence of a correlation between the activity in spatial cognition-implicated brain regions and figural creativity, and suggest initial insights into particular components of spatial processing (both representation and manipulation) that may be related to creative ability. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01