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Title: The Receptive Brain: Up-Regulated Right Temporal Alpha Oscillation Boosting Aha!
Authors: Ghani, A
Di Bernardi Luft, C
Ovadio-Caro, S
Müller, K-R
Bhattacharya, J
Keywords: creativity;neurofeedback;EEG;alpha;receptivity
Issue Date: 6-Dec-2023
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
Citation: Ghani, A. et al. (2023) 'The Receptive Brain: Up-Regulated Right Temporal Alpha Oscillation Boosting Aha!', Creativity Research Journal, 36 (3), pp. 424 - 435. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2023.2289757
Abstract: Chance favors the prepared mind, said Louis Pasteur. Sometimes, significant breakthroughs occur when we creatively integrate new information, leading to a creative insight or an Aha! moment, while at other times when we fail to use a clue, we remain stuck in our habitual thinking patterns. In this study, we hypothesized that the brain’s transient oscillatory states would characterize its receptivity or preparedness for such insights. We conducted a real-time brain-state-dependent cognitive stimulation experiment during insightful problem-solving. We showed that participants were more successful in utilizing clues and experienced more Aha responses when these clues were presented at the spontaneously up-regulated state of right temporal alpha oscillation, as opposed to the down-regulated state. Furthermore, we observed an inverse correlation between the coupling of alpha oscillation phase and gamma oscillation power and the frequency of insight. These results shed light on the neural mechanism underpinning the brain’s receptivity to integrate upcoming semantic information, emphasizing the pivotal role of dynamical brain oscillations in the Aha! experience.
Description: Supplemental material: Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10400419.2023.2289757#supplemental-material-section .
Inaugural Issue of CRJ as the Journal of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity Vol. 2
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2289757
ISSN: 1040-0419
Other Identifiers: ORCiD: Caroline Di Bernardi Luft https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-3898
ORCiD: Joydeep Bhattacharya https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3443-9049
ORCiD: Klaus-Robert Müller https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-7685
ORCiD: Smadar Ovadia Caro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1688-5080
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