Amygdala-frontoparietal effective connectivity in creativity and humor processing.

ABSTRACT: Although both creativity and humor elicit experiences of surprise followed by appreciation, it remains unknown whether shared or distinct patterns of effective connectivity are involved in their processing. The present fMRI study used dynamic causal modeling and parametrical empirical Bayes analysis to examine the effective connectivity between the amygdala and frontoparietal network during two-stage creativity and humor processing. We examined processing during the setup and punch line stages for creativity and humor, including typical forms (alternate uses for creativity and incongruity-resolution humor), atypical forms (aesthetic uses for creativity and nonsense humor), and baseline forms. Our focus was on the mesolimbic pathway during the punch line stage. We found that the amygdala pl

SUBMITTER: Chan YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10028645 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature