I spent many years thinking about how to design an imaging study that could identify the unique features of the creative brain. The images on the left show the brain of a creative subject (top ...

In the healthy brain, everything we do involves the right and left hemispheres of the brain working together, and creative writing ... hemisphere and perhaps our images – the visual ones at ...

In a 2012 study, for example, Strayer found that backpackers were 50 percent more creative after they had ... The other group of children was showed the images in the opposite order, from ...

Your brain needs downtime to remain industrious and generate better ideas. David Burkus of Harvard Business Review explains exactly why breaks lead to creative breakthroughs: “The researchers ...

Walt Disney’s Imagineers, the company’s goofily named creative design and development ... in the resolution of computer-generated brain images as well as advances in stem-cell research ...

But the new study looked at not only how the brain forms images, but also how it modifies them. The imagination experiment was somewhat unrealistic compared with creative tasks in everyday life.

Not only does the study reveal unique features of the creative brain, but it also helps dispel a common brain myth (which we’ll get to in just a moment). If you put a group of people in a room ...

But for the right-handers in the study, recognizing faces was largely localized to the right side of the brain. So what does this have to do with how creative you are? Zillmer said these ...

The latest research into creativity compares the brain function of exceptionally creative visual artists and scientists with a highly educated group. Scientists used functional magnetic resonance ...

But what is your brain doing during these brief periods of creativity? Researchers from the University of Utah Health and Baylor College of Medicine looked into the origin of creative thinking in ...