Generating alternative uses relative to ordinary characteristics recruits mainly left temporo-parietal regions (left SMG, left AG, bilateral MTG) in both adolescents and adults¶
Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causalr2·q3
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Subclaims¶
Reading the evidence codes
q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r
the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.
This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.
q3 i? Whole-brain fMRI contrast AU > OC revealed activation in left SMG, left and right MTG, and left AG, FDR corrected, consistent with prior divergent thinking studies. → Kleibeuker 2013
Evidence¶
Kleibeuker 2013¶
Kleibeuker, S. W., Koolschijn, P. C. M. P., Jolles, D. D., De Dreu, C. K. W., and Crone, E. A. (2013). The neural coding of creative idea generation across adolescence and early adulthood. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7:905. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00905
q3 · i? · causal · r2
Whole-brain voxel-wise t-tests on the contrast AU > OC across all 43 participants. The study reports "a number of regions including left SMG, left and right MTG, and left AG" at FDR-corrected p < 0.05, matching prior work by Fink et al. No effect size is printed for this contrast.
"Results revealed a number of regions including left SMG, left and right MTG, and left AG (FDR corrected, p < 0.05; see Figure 3 and Table 3), which is in line with prior studies"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Adults show larger left IFG/MFG condition effects (AU relative to baseline) than adolescents, indicating adolescents do not yet recruit left lateral PFC at an adult level for creative thinking — related
- Divergent thinking performance (AU-score) positively correlates with left IFG/MFG activation for AU relative to OC trials — related
- Generating multiple alternative uses (AU2+ > OC2+) additionally recruits left inferior frontal gyrus and middle frontal gyrus beyond the temporo-parietal network — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Males show larger AU > OC activation discrepancies than females in left SMG and left MTG, with no age-related differences in these gender effects — related
Page metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
type |
claim |
id |
creative-idea-generation-left-temporo-parietal-recruitment |
title |
Generating alternative uses relative to ordinary characteristics recruits mainly left temporo-parietal regions (left SMG, left AG, bilateral MTG) in both adolescents and adults |
description |
Generating alternative uses relative to ordinary characteristics recruits mainly left temporo-parietal regions (left SMG, left AG, bilateral MTG) in both adolescents and adults |
status |
review |
evidence_strength |
moderate |
newest_evidence |
2013 |
generated |
by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-17 |
trust |
unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content |
sources |
1 — kleibeuker-2013 |
Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.