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Rock music improvisation shows increased activity in Broca's area and its right hemisphere homologue related to spontaneous creativity.

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The neural correlates of creativity are not well understood. Using an improvised guitar task, we investigated the role of Broca's area during spontaneous creativity, regardless of individual skills, experience, or subjective feelings.

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Twenty guitarists performed improvised and formulaic blues rock sequences while hemodynamic responses were recorded using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. We identified a new significant response in Broca's area (Brodmann area [BA] 45L) and its right hemisphere homologue during improvised playing but not during formulaic playing. Our results indicate that bilateral BA45 activity is common during creative processes that involve improvisation across all participants, regardless of subjective feelings, skill, age, difficulty, history, or amount of practice. While our previous results demonstrated that the modulation of the neural network according to the subjectively experienced level of creativity relied on the degree of deactivation in BA46L, our current results independently show a common concurrent activity in BA45 in all participants. We suggest that this is related to the sustained execution of improvisation in "motor control," analogous to motor planning in speech control.

SUBMITTER: Tachibana A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10909250 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Rock music improvisation shows increased activity in Broca's area and its right hemisphere homologue related to spontaneous creativity.

Tachibana Atsumichi A Noah J Adam JA Ono Yumie Y Irie Shun S Tatsumoto Muneto M Taguchi Daisuke D Tokuda Nobuko N Ueda Shuichi S

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<h4>Objective</h4>The neural correlates of creativity are not well understood. Using an improvised guitar task, we investigated the role of Broca's area during spontaneous creativity, regardless of individual skills, experience, or subjective feelings.<h4>Results</h4>Twenty guitarists performed improvised and formulaic blues rock sequences while hemodynamic responses were recorded using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. We identified a new significant response in Broca's area (Brodmann area ...[more]

PMID: 38433213

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Rock music improvisation shows increased activity in Broca's area and its right hemisphere homologue related to spontaneous creativity.

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Rock music improvisation shows increased activity in Broca's area and its right hemisphere homologue related to spontaneous creativity.

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