Rock music improvisation shows increased activity in Broca's area and its right hemisphere homologue related to spontaneous creativity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The neural correlates of creativity are not well understood. Using an improvised guitar task, we investigated the role of Broca's area during spontaneous creativity, regardless of individual skills, experience, or subjective feelings.

Results

Twenty guitarists performed improvised and formulaic blues rock sequences while hemodynamic responses were recorded using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. We identified a new significant response in Broca's area (Brodmann area [BA] 45L) and its right hemisphere homologue during improvised playing but not during formulaic playing. Our results indicate that bilateral BA45 activity is common during creative processes that involve improvisation across all participants, regardless of subjective feelings, skill, age, difficult

SUBMITTER: Tachibana A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10909250 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature