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| Author(s): |
Matheus Henrique Ferreira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2024-04-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Mirella Gualtieri;
Marcelo Fernandes da Costa;
Gustavo Rohenkohl;
Patricia Maria Vanzella;
Marco Antonio Corrêa Varella
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| Advisor: | Mirella Gualtieri |
| Abstract | |
Since the end of the nineties, experimental studies have demonstrated that some personality traits that compose the five factor model present correlations with different creativity measures. Although the biological basis of such associations are unknown, recent research using brain imaging techniques are sheding new lights into this problem, demonstrating that these personality traits also correlate with individual differences in the structure and functionality of large-scale brain networks. For example, openness to experience, which is one of the facets of the trait openness/intellect, is positively associated withthe level of creativity and with the functional connectivity within the default mode network (DMN), a set of cortical regions involved in associative (i.e. involuntary) types of imagination. Furthermore, high scores in this same personality trait seem to indicate a greater frequency of engagement in spontaneous imaginative processes, such as pareidolias and daydreaming. Hence, it is possible that the positive relation between openness to experience and the performance in creativity measures result from variations in the level of functional connectivity within the DMN and, consequently, from variations in the capacity of using associative forms of imagination. Other personality traits, such as conscientiousness, also present correlations with creativity measures and with variations within large-scale brain networks. Considering this scenario, this work aimed at conducting an integrative literature review to gather and analyze studies that investigated the correlations between the structure and functionality of large-scale brain networks and personality traits associated with creativity and discuss its implications for the individual differences in imagination. Furthermore, we developed a new experimental paradigm to measure the individual capacity in different types of imaginative processes, in order to detect each of these large-scale brain networks functionality. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/15720-5 - Effects of odorant exposure in the processing of basic and complex emotions |
| Grantee: | Matheus Henrique Ferreira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |