The neurobehavioral relationship between executive function and creativity during early childhood
The neurobehavioral relationship between executive function and creativity during early childhood
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幼儿期执行功能与创造力之间的神经行为关系
DOI：
10.1002/dev.22191
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Moriguchi Yusuke
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作者：
Wang Jue;Sakata Chifumi;Moriguchi Yusuke
越来越多的行为和神经影像学研究证据表明执行功能 (EF) 与创造力相关。然而，这些研究大多数集中在成人和青少年人群。当 EF 在幼儿期经历快速发展时，由于学龄前儿童口头或书面表达想法的边缘技能，EF 和创造力之间的关系尚不清楚。本研究使用非语言、开放式测试来检验幼儿的创造性思维是否与认知灵活性相关。学龄前儿童 (N = 26) 进行了维度变化卡片分类 (DCCS) 和异常盒子测试 (UBT)，同时使用功能性近红外光谱 (fNIRS) 记录了他们的大脑活动。我们没有发现儿童的认知灵活性和创造性思维之间存在任何显着的相关性。然而，fNIRS 分析表明，在 UBT 测试阶段，儿童前额叶外侧区域的大脑激活明显增强。此外，在 DCCS 转换后阶段强烈招募腹外侧前额叶区域的儿童在进行 UBT 时也会招募相同的区域。总而言之，这些发现表明，儿童在表达创造性思维时会募集侧前额叶区域，并且这种创造性思维可能部分受到幼儿期认知灵活性的支持。
Increasing evidence from behavior and neuroimaging research indicates that executive function (EF) is related to creativity. However, most of these studies focused on adult and adolescent populations. The relationship between EF and creativity is unknown when EF undergoes rapid development during early childhood, due to the preschoolers’ marginal skills of expressing their ideas, orally or in writing. Using a nonverbal, open‐ended test, the present study examined whether creative thinking was related to cognitive flexibility in young children. Preschool children (N= 26) performed the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) and the Unusual Box Test (UBT), while their brain activation was recorded using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). We did not find any significant correlation between children's cognitive flexibility and creative thinking. However, fNIRS analyses showed that children's brain activation in the lateral prefrontal regions was significantly greater during the test phases of the UBT. Additionally, children who strongly recruited their ventrolateral prefrontal regions during the post‐switch phases of the DCCS recruited the same regions while performing the UBT. Taken together, these findings suggest that children recruit their lateral prefrontal regions when expressing creative thinking, and that such creative thinking could be partially supported by cognitive flexibility in early childhood.