Updating the dynamic framework of thought: Creativity and psychedelics

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Caitlin Mills¹  Robin L. Carhart-Harris²  Kalina Christoff²  Manesh Girn³  Leor Roseman⁴ 

[1] Corresponding author.;

[2] Centre for Psychedelic Research, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, UK;

[3] Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada;

[4] Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA;

关键词: Creativity;    Functional connectivity;    Psychedelics;    Default network;    Frontoparietal control network;    Spontaneous thought;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Contemporary investigations regard creativity as a dynamic form of cognition that involves movement between the dissociable stages of creative generation and creative evaluation. Our recently proposed Dynamic Framework of Thought (Christoff et al., 2016) offered a conceptualization of these stages in terms of an interplay between sources of constraint and variability on thought. This initial conceptualization, however, has yet to be fully explicated and given targeted discussion. Here, we refine this framework’s account of creativity by highlighting the dynamic nature of creative thought, both within and between the stages of creative generation and evaluation. In particular, we emphasize that creative generation in particular is best regarded as a product of multiple, varying mental states, rather than being a singular mental state in and of itself. We also propose that the psychedelic state is a mental state with high potential for facilitating creative generation and update the Dynamic Framework of Thought to incorporate this state. This paper seeks to highlight the dynamic nature of the neurocognitive processes underlying creative thinking and to draw attention to the potential utility of psychedelic substances as experimental tools in the neuroscience of creativity.

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