Biopsychologia twórczości
Biopsychology of creativity

Summary/Abstract: However interesting, the knowledge about the biopsychological determinants of human creative activity is not well known in the general psychology. The paper aims to present that knowledge, including its historical progress. Therefore the results of both older psychophysiological studies, especially lectroencephalographic, as well as newer, dealing with different methods of neuroimaging, and also the newest, conducted within the paradigm of behavioral genetics, were described. Showing empirical results is associated with the attempts to interpreting them; the reported interpretations are made by the original authors or are made by the author of the article. Explanations are mainly focused on the phenomenon of decreased cognitive inhibition, situational decreasing of the cortical arousal in the creative persons during the inspiration period and the integrative activity imposed by the prefrontal cortex. The paper is closed with two proposed theoretical syntheses (first by Eysenck, the second by Heilman) presented with the accompanying comparative commentary.

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