Summary
Creativity is widely recognized as an essential skill for entrepreneurial success and adaptation to daily-life demands. However, we know little about the neural changes associated with creative capacity. We are actively involved in doing a series of studies to better understand:
how creativity is manifested in the brain
can we enhance creativity using design-thinking based training
how the neural activity changes with creative capacity enhancement
how creative brain develops (esp. why creativity slumps in the 4th grade)
the neural correlates of team-creativity
Presentations/Papers
Saggar, M., Quintin E-M, Bott N., Kienitz, E., Chien, Y.H., Hong, D.W.C., Liu, N., Royalty, A., Hawthorne, G. & Reiss, A.L. (2016) Changes in Brain Activation Associated with Spontaneous Improvization and Figural Creativity After Design-Thinking-Based Training: A Longitudinal fMRI Study Cerebral Cortex
Saggar, M., Quintin E-M, Bott N., Kienitz, E., Chien, Y.H., Hong, D.W.C., Liu, N., Royalty, A., Hawthorne, G. & Reiss, A.L. (2015) Pictionary-based fMRI paradigm to study the neural correlates of spontaneous improvisation and figural creativity. Scientific Reports
Bott, N., Quintin, E.-M., Saggar, M., Kienitz, E., Royalty, A., Hong, D.W.C., Liu, N., Chien, Y.H., Hawthrone, G., & Reiss A.L. (2014) Creativity training enhances goal-directed attention and information processing. Thinking Skills and Creativity
Kienitz, E., Quintin, E.-M., Saggar, M., Bott, N., Royalty, A., Hong, D.W.C., Liu, N., Chien, Y.H., Hawthrone, G., & Reiss A.L. (2014) Targeted intervention to increase creative capacity and performance: A randomized controlled pilot study. Thinking Skills and Creativity
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