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Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data
Creativity is of central importance for human civilization, yet its neurocognitive bases are poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to integrate existing functional imaging data by using the meta-analysis approach. We reviewed 34 functional imaging studies that reported activation foci...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23966927 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00465 |
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author | Gonen-Yaacovi, Gil de Souza, Leonardo Cruz Levy, Richard Urbanski, Marika Josse, Goulven Volle, Emmanuelle |
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description | Creativity is of central importance for human civilization, yet its neurocognitive bases are poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to integrate existing functional imaging data by using the meta-analysis approach. We reviewed 34 functional imaging studies that reported activation foci during tasks assumed to engage creative thinking in healthy adults. A coordinate-based meta-analysis using Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) first showed a set of predominantly left-hemispheric regions shared by the various creativity tasks examined. These regions included the caudal lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), the medial and lateral rostral PFC, and the inferior parietal and posterior temporal cortices. Further analyses showed that tasks involving the combination of remote information (combination tasks) activated more anterior areas of the lateral PFC than tasks involving the free generation of unusual responses (unusual generation tasks), although both types of tasks shared caudal prefrontal areas. In addition, verbal and non-verbal tasks involved the same regions in the left caudal prefrontal, temporal, and parietal areas, but also distinct domain-oriented areas. Taken together, these findings suggest that several frontal and parieto-temporal regions may support cognitive processes shared by diverse creativity tasks, and that some regions may be specialized for distinct types of processes. In particular, the lateral PFC appeared to be organized along a rostro-caudal axis, with rostral regions involved in combining ideas creatively and more posterior regions involved in freely generating novel ideas. |
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spelling | pubmed-37431302013-08-21 Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data Gonen-Yaacovi, Gil de Souza, Leonardo Cruz Levy, Richard Urbanski, Marika Josse, Goulven Volle, Emmanuelle Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Creativity is of central importance for human civilization, yet its neurocognitive bases are poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to integrate existing functional imaging data by using the meta-analysis approach. We reviewed 34 functional imaging studies that reported activation foci during tasks assumed to engage creative thinking in healthy adults. A coordinate-based meta-analysis using Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) first showed a set of predominantly left-hemispheric regions shared by the various creativity tasks examined. These regions included the caudal lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), the medial and lateral rostral PFC, and the inferior parietal and posterior temporal cortices. Further analyses showed that tasks involving the combination of remote information (combination tasks) activated more anterior areas of the lateral PFC than tasks involving the free generation of unusual responses (unusual generation tasks), although both types of tasks shared caudal prefrontal areas. In addition, verbal and non-verbal tasks involved the same regions in the left caudal prefrontal, temporal, and parietal areas, but also distinct domain-oriented areas. Taken together, these findings suggest that several frontal and parieto-temporal regions may support cognitive processes shared by diverse creativity tasks, and that some regions may be specialized for distinct types of processes. In particular, the lateral PFC appeared to be organized along a rostro-caudal axis, with rostral regions involved in combining ideas creatively and more posterior regions involved in freely generating novel ideas. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3743130/ /pubmed/23966927 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00465 Text en Copyright © 2013 Gonen-Yaacovi, de Souza, Levy, Urbanski, Josse and Volle. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Gonen-Yaacovi, Gil de Souza, Leonardo Cruz Levy, Richard Urbanski, Marika Josse, Goulven Volle, Emmanuelle Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data |
title | Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data |
title_full | Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data |
title_fullStr | Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data |
title_full_unstemmed | Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data |
title_short | Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data |
title_sort | rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23966927 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00465 |
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