How does the DMN contribute to creativity?

Our review with Roger Beaty (@roger-beaty.bsky.social) and Emmanuelle Volle explores 4 novel trends in research.

🚨 Check out our recent preprint on human-AI co-creativity in story writing!

🔍🔍🔍 We investigate the mechanisms that underlie the outcomes of human-AI co-creativity in a highly naturalistic setting.

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I'll be discussing the findings from my recent Cerebral Cortex article

Enhancing creativity with covert neurofeedback: causal evidence for default-executive network coupling in creative thinking

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Excited to share my research at the upcoming Creativity Research Network online event on Thursday, May 15th (1:30 PM, EST)! 📅

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Behaviorally, we observed a double dissociation.

The experimental neurofeedback led to benefits in AUT performance, while the motor control neurofeedback led to benefits in Go/No-Go performance.

Participants completed two tasks.

Alternate Uses Task (AUT) : Measures creative performance.
Go/No-Go Task : Measures motor performance and sustained attention.

Participants were assigned to either an experimental or control neurofeedback condition.

Experimental Neurofeedback : Entraining coupling between DMN and ECN
Motor Control Neurofeedback : Entraining coupling between DMN and a motor control region.

This was a two-day study.

Day (1) : Participants completed a pre-neurofeedback baseline on our creativity and control task. Then, they took part in the neurofeedback.
Day (2) : Participants completed the post-neurofeedback measurement

Enhancing creativity through neurofeedback:
Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking!

Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Luehrs, Michal Ramot, & @roger-beaty.bsky.social

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