TY - JOUR
T1 - The Neural Mechanism Underlying Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Creativity
AU - Gu, Simeng
AU - Gao, Mengdan
AU - Yan, Yaoyao
AU - Wang, Fushun
AU - Tang, Yi Yuan
AU - Huang, Jason H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Scott & White Plummer Foundation Grant (JH), National Science Foundation in China 816280007 (JH and FW), Jiangsu Nature Foundation BK20151565 (FW), Jiangsu Traditional Chinese Medicine Foundation ZD201501 (FW), Jiangsu Six Talent Peak project 2015YY006 (FW), and the University Science Research Project of Jiangsu Province 17KJD310001 (SG).
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2018 Gu, Gao, Yan, Wang, Tang and Huang.
PY - 2018/10/31
Y1 - 2018/10/31
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - basic emotions
KW - cognition
KW - core affect
KW - creativity
KW - monoamine
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U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01924
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01924
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85065193412
VL - 9
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
SN - 1664-1078
M1 - 1924
ER -