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Prevailing theories on creativity focus on methodology, or amount of practice. But two new studies suggest artistic talent may be more hard-wired than we thought.
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
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The first study, published in a recent issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, found that highly creative individuals have more activity in the part of the brain containing the ability to make original associations, to blend information from various scenarios and experiences (known as “conceptual integration”), and to understand complex metaphors and comparisons.
The second study, published in the June 2014 edition of Creativity Research Journal, found that people who have brains that process information faster can also make more diverse connections and original associations, a hallmark of creativity. Because there’s not an obviously confounding relationship between information processing speed and creativity.