{"id":233704,"date":"2026-03-20T07:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-neuroimaging-study-maps-the-brain-networks-behind-scientific-creative-thinking"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:03:05","slug":"new-neuroimaging-study-maps-the-brain-networks-behind-scientific-creative-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-neuroimaging-study-maps-the-brain-networks-behind-scientific-creative-thinking","title":{"rendered":"New neuroimaging study maps the brain networks behind scientific creative thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-neuroimaging-study-maps-the-brain-networks-behind-scientific-creative-thinking.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do scientists come up with new ideas? Brain scans show that scientific creativity requires the brain\u2019s imagination, control, and switching networks to actively communicate to generate and evaluate novel hypotheses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do scientists come up with new ideas? Brain scans show that scientific creativity requires the brain\u2019s imagination, control, and switching networks to actively communicate to generate and evaluate novel hypotheses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233704","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=233704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}