Researchers report taking a small nap can significantly boost creativity.
Researchers say whether you are a competent artist or not, drawing and doodling can have a positive effect on your mental health and help boost creativity.
Researches investigate the positive impact of nurturing creativity in children and evaluate methods for encouraging creativity.
Singing and imagined musical improvisation were associated with weaker connectivity to the executive function network in the brain and to the feeling of flow, which allows for unhindered musical creativity.
A simple exercise of naming unrelated words and measuring the semantic distance between the words could serve as an objective measure of personal creativity, a new study reports.
Worrying and overthinking about possible adverse events that are not immediately present to us, or allowing our minds to wander, can lead to higher levels of creativity.
Cognitive flexibility, an ability to switch between different concepts, or adapt behavior to achieve goals in a novel or changing environment, is a key player in both learning and creativity.
Offering a range of rewards for people to choose from helps to boost creativity, especially within the workforce, a new study reports.
Viewing art you find aesthetically pleasing can help boost your personal creativity, researchers report.
Using characters from "Game of Thrones", researchers investigated what happens in the brain when people immerse themselves in fiction. The study found the more people became immersed in a story, the more they "became" the fictional character while reading. This was reflected in activity changes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with thinking about one's self.
Researchers investigate why boredom can be both good and bad for our mental health and behaviors.
Encouraging empathy helps to improve creativity in school-aged children, a new study reveals.
