PET study of brain maintenance of verbal creative activity.

• This paper deals with the investigation of the brain organization of verbal creativity. Psychological tasks were designed in accordance with two main strategies used by volunteers in solving creative tasks. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured with positron emission tomography (PET) when performing two types of creative tasks in two groups of subjects, each type of the task organizing the creativity process in its own way. Brain correlates of creativity were revealed in the left parieto-temporal regions (Brodmann areas 39 and 40).

Keyword

Adolescent

Adult

Brain physiology radionuclide imaging

Brain Mapping

Cerebrovascular Circulation physiology

Cognition physiology

Functional Laterality physiology

Humans

Male

Mental Processes physiology

Parietal Lobe blood supply physiology

Temporal Lobe blood supply physiology

Tomography

Emission Computed

Verbal Behavior

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)