Default network contributions to episodic and semantic processing during divergent creative thinking: A representational similarity analysis.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive and neuroimaging evidence suggests that episodic and semantic memory-memory for autobiographical events and conceptual knowledge, respectively-support different aspects of creative thinking, with a growing number of studies reporting activation of brain regions within the default network during performance on creative thinking tasks. The present research sought to dissociate neural contributions of these memory processes by inducing episodic or semantic retrieval orientations prior to performance on a divergent thinking task during fMRI. We conducted a representational similarity analysis (RSA) to identify multivoxel patterns of neural activity that were similar across induction (episodic and semantic) and idea generation. At the behavioral level, we found that semantic induction

SUBMITTER: Beaty RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7056499 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature