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Basics of social cognitive and affective neuroscience; XIII. Creativity


Authors: F. Koukolík
Authors‘ workplace: Národní referenční laboratoř prionových chorob ;  Fakultní Thomayerova nemocnice s poliklinikou, Praha, Primář: MUDr. František Koukolík, DrSc. ;  Oddělení patologie a molekulární medicíny
Published in: Prakt. Lék. 2012; 92(1): 3-7
Category: Editorial

Overview

Creativity is one of the most valued human traits:
it is the capacity to produce new concepts, ideas, inventions, art. Creativity is perhaps a continuum of everyday creativity to an eminent one. Creativity may be tested by Torrance tests of creative thinking. According to the investment theory, creativity requires

  • intellectual abilities,
  • knowledge,
  • ways of thinking,
  • personality,
  • motivation, and
  • environments.
There are pedigrees of eminently creative people across various fields. Correlation of psychometric intelligence and creativity is not strong. Creativity is improved by bilingualism. A so-called “creative personality” exists: among its traits belongs
  • openness,
  • consciousness,
  • impulsivity,
  • autonomy, and
  • a higher score of Eysencks’s psychoticism
Many studies of creativity by neuroimaging now exist, but results of surveys and metanalyses are tentative.

Some individual studies are more optimistic. There is now some early research aimed at a genetic basis of creativity. The first candidate genes have been identified. Creativity has long been associated with mental disorder. A familial cosegregation of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with creativity is suggested. Some psychosocial limits of scientific creativity exist.

Key words:
creativity, personality, neuroimaging, candidate genes, mental disorder, psychosocial limits.


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