Weekly Roundup: The Brain’s Secrets to Exceptional Creativity, Can AI make you More Creative, and What does the Brain do at Rest

This week let’s look at creativity and what AI can contribute to this — which is a lot, if you are not creative that is?

What Does Exceptional Creativity Look Like in the Brain?

There has been plenty of research into creative individuals and also brain scanning research but there are also a number of problems with this. For example, one problem is that creative people tend to be intelligent so if comparing to a norm population you may be measuring a facet of intelligence and not creativeness.

Ariana Anderson, an assistant research professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA aimed to fill in these gaps in creativity research and expand on it by comparing brains of highly creative people and matching them to controls of the same IQ. People who exhibit exceptional creativity are known as “Big C” types and these can come in multiple professions.

Anderson recruited 21 Big C visual artists but also 21 big C scientists and 24 regular smart people which served as the control group.

They were asked to do various tasks while in a brain scanner related to creativity and…