{"id":198619,"date":"2024-10-31T12:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-research-suggests-various-parts-of-the-brain-work-together-to-come-up-with-creative-ideas-not-just-one-specific-region"},"modified":"2024-10-31T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:30:56","slug":"new-research-suggests-various-parts-of-the-brain-work-together-to-come-up-with-creative-ideas-not-just-one-specific-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-research-suggests-various-parts-of-the-brain-work-together-to-come-up-with-creative-ideas-not-just-one-specific-region","title":{"rendered":"New Research Suggests Various Parts Of The Brain Work Together To Come Up With Creative Ideas, Not Just One Specific Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-suggests-various-parts-of-the-brain-work-together-to-come-up-with-creative-ideas-not-just-one-specific-region2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At some point in your life, you must\u2019ve experienced a lightbulb moment when an amazing idea just popped into your head out of nowhere. But what is your brain doing during these brief periods of creativity?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Utah Health and Baylor College of Medicine looked into the origin of creative thinking in the brain. They found that different parts of the brain work together to produce creative ideas, not just one particular area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike motor function or vision, they\u2019re not dependent on one specific location in the brain,\u201d Ben Shofty, the senior author of the study and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, said. \u201cThere\u2019s not a creativity cortex.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in your life, you must\u2019ve experienced a lightbulb moment when an amazing idea just popped into your head out of nowhere. But what is your brain doing during these brief periods of creativity? Researchers from the University of Utah Health and Baylor College of Medicine looked into the origin of creative thinking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}