COP3 : The roots of creativity found in the brain

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The roots of creativity found in the brain -

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Alex Schlegel,A cognitive neuroscientist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, has been looking into where the human imagination stems from, it evolves a widespread network of brain areas that collectively manipulate ideas, images and symbols.

Schlegel asked participants of his experiment to imagine certain shapes and sometimes manipulate them by either combining them with other shapes or mentally breaking the shapes apart. They were asked to do this whilst in an MRI scan to measure their brain activity.

Scan shows that a broad network of brain areas were involved in the imagination tasks, and they appeared to be working in Unison.

The areas of the brain that were used were: the occipital  cortex, the posterior cortex (PPC, the posterior precuneus and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) which are involved in visual processing, attention and executive functions.

Understanding imagination reveals what makes humans unique.