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The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

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What Is the Salience Network?

As soon as you close your eyes, you are shutting yourself off from the sensory world. You're relying on your library of existing experiences and your memory of those in order to imagine new things. The final element within the circuits underlying creativity is the so-called salience network. It has one main job, which is to pay attention to what's most interesting either in the world or inside us in terms of feelings or experiences.

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