Neuroimaging studies of subjects involved in creative tasks show that creativity is linked to aspects of the brain. These studies describe the neuroanatomy and neurobiology of creativity and insight.
“Aha!”: The neural correlates of verbal insight solutions. (Link)
Cerebral blood flow associated with creative performance: a comparative study. (Link)
Cortical morphology of visual creativity. (Link)
Cortical regions involved in the generation of musical structures during improvisation in pianists. (Link)
Evaluative and generative modes of thought during the creative process. (Link)
Failing to deactivate: the association between brain activity during a working memory task and creativity. (Link)
Neural activity when people solve verbal problems with insight. (Link)
Neural correlates of creativity in analogical reasoning. (Link)
Neural networks involved in artistic creativity. (Link)
Neural substrates of spontaneous musical performance: an FMRI study of jazz improvisation. (Link)
Regional gray matter volume of dopaminergic system associate with creativity: evidence from voxel-based morphometry. (Link)
Semantic divergence and creative story generation: an fMRI investigation. (Link)
The creative brain: investigation of brain activity during creative problem solving by means of EEG and FMRI. (Link)
Thinking outside a less intact box: thalamic dopamine D2 receptor densities are negatively related to psychometric creativity in healthy individuals. (Link)
White matter integrity, creativity, and psychopathology: disentangling constructs with diffusion tensor imaging. (Link)
