The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Creativity
Creativity is related to both cognition and emotion, which are the two major mental processes, interacting with each other to form psychological processes. Emotion is the major driving force of almost all creativities, sometimes in an unconscious way. Even though there are many studies concerning th...
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| author | Simeng Gu Simeng Gu Mengdan Gao Yaoyao Yan Fushun Wang Fushun Wang Fushun Wang Yi-yuan Tang Yi-yuan Tang Jason H. Huang Jason H. Huang |
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| description | Creativity is related to both cognition and emotion, which are the two major mental processes, interacting with each other to form psychological processes. Emotion is the major driving force of almost all creativities, sometimes in an unconscious way. Even though there are many studies concerning the relationship between creativity and cognition, there are few studies about the neural mechanisms of the emotional effects on creativity. Here, we introduce a novel model to explain the relationship between emotions and creativities: Three Primary Color model, which proposes that there are four major basic emotions; these basic emotions are subsided by three monoamines, just like the three primary colors: dopamine-joy, norepinephrine-stress (fear and anger), and serotonin-punishment. Interestingly, these three neuromodulators play similar roles in creativity, whose core features are value and novelty (surprise), like the characteristics of the core features of basic emotions (hedonic value and arousal value). Dysfunctions of these neuromodulators may be the reasons for both psychopathology and creativity, in that they can change the thinking styles such as novelty seeking behavior, hyper-connectivity of brain areas, and/or cognitive disinhibition to induce both creativity and psychopathology. This new model will not only help researchers understand the dynamics of basic emotion elements, it can also bring an entirely new perspective into the relationship between psychopathology and creativity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-16c208a3d7184618b067f18d16f64a3b2022-12-22T00:42:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-10-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.01924415276The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in CreativitySimeng Gu0Simeng Gu1Mengdan Gao2Yaoyao Yan3Fushun Wang4Fushun Wang5Fushun Wang6Yi-yuan Tang7Yi-yuan Tang8Jason H. Huang9Jason H. Huang10Department of Psychology, School of Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Emotion, School of Psychology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, ChinaInstitute of Emotion, School of Psychology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, ChinaInstitute of Emotion, School of Psychology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, ChinaInstitute of Emotion, School of Psychology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, ChinaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, TX, United StatesCollege of Medicine, Texas A&M HSC, Temple, TX, United StatesDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United StatesCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United StatesDepartment of Neurosurgery, Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, TX, United StatesCollege of Medicine, Texas A&M HSC, Temple, TX, United StatesCreativity is related to both cognition and emotion, which are the two major mental processes, interacting with each other to form psychological processes. Emotion is the major driving force of almost all creativities, sometimes in an unconscious way. Even though there are many studies concerning the relationship between creativity and cognition, there are few studies about the neural mechanisms of the emotional effects on creativity. Here, we introduce a novel model to explain the relationship between emotions and creativities: Three Primary Color model, which proposes that there are four major basic emotions; these basic emotions are subsided by three monoamines, just like the three primary colors: dopamine-joy, norepinephrine-stress (fear and anger), and serotonin-punishment. Interestingly, these three neuromodulators play similar roles in creativity, whose core features are value and novelty (surprise), like the characteristics of the core features of basic emotions (hedonic value and arousal value). Dysfunctions of these neuromodulators may be the reasons for both psychopathology and creativity, in that they can change the thinking styles such as novelty seeking behavior, hyper-connectivity of brain areas, and/or cognitive disinhibition to induce both creativity and psychopathology. This new model will not only help researchers understand the dynamics of basic emotion elements, it can also bring an entirely new perspective into the relationship between psychopathology and creativity.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01924/fullcreativitycognitionbasic emotionsmonoaminecore affect |
| spellingShingle | Simeng Gu Simeng Gu Mengdan Gao Yaoyao Yan Fushun Wang Fushun Wang Fushun Wang Yi-yuan Tang Yi-yuan Tang Jason H. Huang Jason H. Huang The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Creativity Frontiers in Psychology creativity cognition basic emotions monoamine core affect |
| title | The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Creativity |
| title_full | The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Creativity |
| title_fullStr | The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Creativity |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Creativity |
| title_short | The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Creativity |
| title_sort | neural mechanism underlying cognitive and emotional processes in creativity |
| topic | creativity cognition basic emotions monoamine core affect |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01924/full |
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