Cognitive and neural mechanisms of mental imagery supporting creative cognition.

ABSTRACT: While the role of mental imagery in creative cognition is acknowledged, the specific cognitive and neural mechanisms remain underexplored. This study aims to elucidate the supportive role of mental imagery in creative cognition from a semantic memory perspective, and elucidating its underlying neural substrates. Initially, we conducted a behavioral study and found positive correlation between the vividness of touch imagery with creative performance in a creative writing task. By establishing semantic feature indicators based on writing texts and mediation models, we found that the vividness of touch imagery facilitates creative writing performance by semantic integration and reorganization. A subsequent behavioral study comparing mental imagery and semantic understanding strategies usage i

SUBMITTER: Gu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12484779 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature