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The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

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What Are the Underlying Principles and Neural Circuits That Underlie the Creative Process?

When thinking about biology, it's almost always better to think about verbs as opposed to nouns. The first neural circuit involved in creativity is the so-called executive network. This is kind of a goofy name because the neural circuits that I'm about to describe do a bunch of other things too. But they certainly control what are called executive functions.

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