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Creativity

Intraoperative Mapping of Cognitive Networks: Which Tasks for Which Locations, Page: 337-354
2021
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Book Chapter Description

Creativity is a high-level cognitive function that is central to our ability to cope with change and solve novel problems, enabling extraordinary accomplishments as well as adapting and flourishing in everyday life. Neuroscientists usually define creativity as the ability to generate productions that are both original and appropriate. Only a few patient studies have explored the impact of brain lesions on creative abilities. Although these studies were not conducted specifically on patients with brain lesion requiring surgery, they suggest that creativity can be impaired in this population. In this chapter, we present the main frameworks that are used to explore the cognitive and brain mechanisms underlying creativity. Then, we review recent neuroimaging studies of creativity in healthy subjects, and in patients with brain lesions or neurological diseases. Finally, we discuss how enhanced knowledge of creativity brain networks can be useful for planning and monitoring brain surgery in patients, and we suggest some tools for these purposes. We propose some avenues for future research to meet these challenges.

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