Suppressing the reasoning part of the brain stimulates creativity, scientists find | Sc... - 0 views
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Researchers have found that suppressing activity in part of the brain involved in planning and reasoning can boost an individual’s ability to think in creative ways and solve mind-bending problems.
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We can improve very specific think-out-of-the-box [processes], but at the same time we decrease working memory processes,
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participants who had been given small amounts of electrical stimulation were three times more likely to solve puzzles than those who had not had their brains “zapped”.
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show that the proportion of participants who were able to solve the toughest problems for the first time after receiving their designated stimulation, were higher for those receiving negative stimulation at 32%, compared to just 5% for positive and sham stimulation.
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suppression of activity in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex helps to override constraints in thinking learned from experience.
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negative stimulation resulted in participants becoming less able to tackle one of the other types of matchstick problem – suggesting that the electrical currents had impaired participants’ working memory.
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it is possible that people may turn to tDCS for creative inspiration, in the same way that people turn to drugs or alcohol.”
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It would be beneficial to think ‘what exactly do I need to be creative on this task’ rather than how to improve creativity in general,”
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“When the [dorsolateral prefrontal cortex] was ‘cooled down’, the brain seems to have stopped applying old rules, and been more successful at finding new rules
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the negative stimulation would not boost efforts in cases where individuals need to keep track of a number of different things at the same time.