Abstract #5565

Creativity Performance Reflected on the Activation of Divergent Thinking and Connectivity of Inferior Frontal Gyrus

Hong-Yu Wu¹, Bo-Cheng Kuo², Chih-Mao Huang³, Jyh-Horng Chen¹, and Changwei W Wu⁴

¹Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ²Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ³Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ⁴Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Creativity is taken as a spontaneous mental process and creativity scales associates with resting-state functional connectivity in literature. However, it remains unclear that how brain integrity changes following creative thoughts. Targeting on this causal effect, we explored the functional connectivity before and after the engagement of divergent thinking. We demonstrated the interactions between brain activations in divergent thinking and functional connectivity in certain networks, especially in the locus of left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). Meanwhile, the reduced IFG-precuneus connections could benefit the creativity performances.

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