Creativity and the brain: An editorial introduction to the special issue on the neuroscience of creativity
Creativity and the brain: An editorial introduction to the special issue on the neuroscience of creativity
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DOI：
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117836
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发表时间：
2021-02
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5.7
通讯作者：
M. Saggar;E. Volle;L. Uddin;E. Chrysikou;Adam E. Green
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作者：
M. Saggar;E. Volle;L. Uddin;E. Chrysikou;Adam E. Green
人类大脑的创造能力是地球上38亿年进化的最新产物之一，可能是人工智能时代人类最具身份的特征。人类所做的许多最复杂的事情现在或很快就会被计算机做得更好。创意项目是最大的例外。理解和培养人类的创造力是科学研究的优先事项，这一点从未像现在这样得到广泛认可。人们普遍认为，产生既有分歧又有用的想法的能力对艺术和科学的学习和实践很有价值，也是现代创新经济的驱动力。在可预见的未来，这一价值只会增加。由于创造力具有如此广泛和多样的影响，创造力的神经科学正在被各种各样的研究人员所追求。在一个领域的早期阶段，创造力神经科学的研究工作通常是由心理学、教育学、工业和临床神经科学等子学科的研究人员单独进行的。为了使创造力的神经科学发挥其巨大的潜力，重要的是要在研究人员之间建立更大的相互意识和凝聚力，并与教育工作者和其他利益相关者进行沟通，以便确定和追求优先方向。满足这一需求是创造力神经科学协会（SfNC）的主要目标。这个关于创造力神经科学的特刊（SI）由我们一群在SfNC执行委员会任职的人客座编辑，旨在汇集来自地球仪的创造力神经科学实验室的临时和新的经验工作。我们希望这个SI可以有助于（1）绘制创造力神经科学的多样性，以增加该领域内的相互认识，同时提高更广泛的认知神经科学社区对创造力神经科学的认识;以及（2）强调有前途的研究方向，围绕有潜力促进对创造力如何在大脑中发生以及如何增强创造力的基本理解的方法和问题，在这篇社论中，我们试图总结本SI中报告的结果和理论，将其置于更大的认知神经科学框架内，并提供该领域研究优先事项的适度列表。
The creative ability of the human brain, among the newest products of 3.8 billion years of evolution on Earth, may be humanity’s most identity-defining feature in the age of artificial intelligence. Many of the most complex things humans do are now done—or soon will be done—far better by computers. Creativity projects to be the greatest exception. There has never been more widespread recognition that understanding and fostering human creativity is a priority for scientific research. The capacity to generate ideas that are both divergent and useful is widely recognized as valuable for learning and practice in the arts and sciences, and as a driver of the modern innovation economy. This value will only increase in the foreseeable future. Because creativity has such broad and diverse impacts, the neuroscience of creativity is being pursued by a diverse set of researchers. As is generally true in the early stages of a field, research endeavors into creativity neuroscience have often been undertaken separately by researchers siloed within sub-disciplines of psychology, education, industry, and clinical neuroscience. For the neuroscience of creativity to fulfill its considerable potential, it is important to develop greater mutual awareness and cohesion among researchers, and communication with educators and other stakeholders, so that priority directions can be identified and pursued. Meeting this need is a primary objective of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC). This special issue (SI) on the neuroscience of creativity, guest-edited by a group of us who serve on the SfNC Executive Committee, is aimed at bringing together both expository and new empirical work from creativity neuroscience labs across the globe. We hope that this SI can contribute to (1) mapping the diversity of creativity neuroscience to increase mutual awareness within the field, while increasing awareness of creativity neuroscience across the broader cognitive neuroscience community; and (2) highlighting promising research directions toward stronger coalescence around methods and questions that have potential to catalyze basic understanding of how creativity occurs in the brain and how to enhance it. In this editorial, we attempt to summarize the results and theories reported in this SI, situate them within a larger cognitive neuroscience framework, and provide a modest list of research priorities for the field.