#3) CREATIVITY ARTICLE

                                       

 Creativity is the ability to come up with new and useful ideas, which is an ability that everyone can do to some degree. Recent research suggests that creativity involves three brain networks: the default (engaged in spontaneous thinking, such as daydreaming and imagining, may play a key role in idea generation or brainstorming), salience(This network may play a key role in alternating between idea generation and idea evaluation.), and executive networks(may play a key role in idea evaluation or determining whether brainstormed ideas will actually work and modifying them to fit the creative goal) These regions, typically activated separately, work together. A study showed that those with stronger connections in these networks scored higher in creative tasks. These findings show that the creative brain is uniquely wired, though more research is needed to determine whether these networks can be trained or are fixed.

I think it's neat that people are doing studies to find out how the mind works when doing creative tasks.  Doing any studies to find out more about the brain is great.  So much is still unknown when it comes to the brain so when studies are done I find them fascinating because the most important body part is so unknown by society and showing what parts of the brain activate and how others dont is cool.