title: Common and distinct brain networks underlying verbal and visual creativity.
abstract: Creativity is imperative to the progression of human civilization, prosperity, and well-being. Past creative researches tends to emphasize the default mode network (DMN) or the frontoparietal network (FPN) somewhat exclusively. However, little is known about how these networks interact to contribute to creativity and whether common or distinct brain networks are responsible for visual and verbal creativity. Here, we use functional connectivity analysis of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data to investigate visual and verbal creativity-related regions and networks in 282 healthy subjects. We found that functional connectivity within the bilateral superior parietal cortex of the FPN was negatively associated with visual and verbal creativity. The strength of connectivity between the DMN and FPN was positively related to both creative domains. Visual creativity was negatively correlated with functional connectivity within the precuneus of the pDMN and right middle frontal gyrus of the FPN, and verbal creativity was negatively correlated with functional connectivity within the medial prefrontal cortex of the aDMN. Critically, the FPN mediated the relationship between the aDMN and verbal creativity, and it also mediated the relationship between the pDMN and visual creativity. Taken together, decreased within-network connectivity of the FPN and DMN may allow for flexible between-network coupling in the highly creative brain. These findings provide indirect evidence for the cooperative role of the default and executive control networks in creativity, extending past research by revealing common and distinct brain systems underlying verbal and visual creative cognition. Hum Brain Mapp 38:2094-2111, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Wenfeng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Qunlin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Lingxiang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
authors.forename: Roger E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Beaty
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Wenjing
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Jiangzhou
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Guikang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Qinglin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.|School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.|Southwest University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Jiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qiu
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007360:Intelligence; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012146:Rest; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: default mode network; frontoparietal network; functional connectivity; verbal creativity; visual creativity