Neural and genetic determinants of creativity

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 174; pp. 164 - 176
• Main Authors: Liu, Zhaowen, Zhang, Jie, Xie, Xiaohua, Rolls, Edmund T., Sun, Jiangzhou, Zhang, Kai, Jiao, Zeyu, Chen, Qunlin, Zhang, Junying, Qiu, Jiang, Feng, Jianfeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.07.2018; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Behavior; Brain - metabolism; Brain - physiology; Brain research; Cognition & reasoning; Connectome; Creativity; Dopamine; Executive function; Female; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid - genetics; Genes; Genome; Genomes; Glutamic Acid - genetics; Humans; Information processing; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Mutation; Names; Neural coding; Neural networks; Neural Pathways - metabolism; Neural Pathways - physiology; Neuroimaging; Neuropsychological Tests; Neurotransmitters; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Sensory integration; Single-nucleotide polymorphism; Young Adult; γ-Aminobutyric acid; China

Creative thinking plays a vital role in almost all aspects of human life. However, little is known about the neural and genetic mechanisms underlying creative thinking. Based on a cross-validation based predictive framework, we searched from the whole-brain connectome (34,716 functional connectiviti...