For decades, the idea that creativity comes from the right side of the brain has dominated popular culture. People have been told they're either "right-brained" (creative, intuitive) or "left-brained" ...

Effortless, enjoyable productivity is a state of consciousness prized and sought after by people in business, the arts, research, education and anyone else who wants to produce a stream of creative ...

Have you ever had the solution for a tough problem suddenly hit you when you’re thinking about something entirely different? Creative thought is a hallmark of humanity, but it’s an ephemeral, almost ...

Creativity mapped to a specific brain circuit in healthy people, an analysis of neuroimaging studies suggested. In a meta-analysis involving 36 studies and 857 healthy participants, 415 brain ...

New research published in JAMA Network Open has identified a common brain circuit linked to creativity across multiple domains, such as music, writing, drawing, and idea generation. The findings ...

Flow, commonly called being in the zone, is where a person is totally engaged in performing an activity, up to the point where they are hardly self-conscious or conscious of their surroundings. The ...

Functional connectivity with the rFP (green, left) defines a distributed brain circuit (right) that will encompass coordinates activated by creativity tasks. Brigham researchers analyzed data from 857 ...

If you got good grades in your creative writing class, it probably had more to do with how your brain works rather than how hard you studied. A research team at University of Utah Health and based in ...

A large-scale international study found that creative activities such as music, dance, painting and even certain video games may help keep the brain biologically "younger." Researchers from 13 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine an emerging speculation about AI ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s notebooks show that he spent countless hours laboriously developing and revising the musical ideas on which his great compositions were based. It was a torturous and ...