Creativity might seem like too spontaneous and too messy a process to be dictated by precise brain mechanisms that science can unravel.
However, the latest advances in neuroscience prove that this is indeed the case.
Processes that science may be able not only to understand, but also influence, underpin the seeming unpredictability of the creative process.
For instance, we know that the brain’s default network is involved in daydreaming, or focusing on one’s inner emotions and ignoring the outside world. Activity in this brain network may be responsible for the first stage of creativity, where idle, free associations and experimentation bring forth original ideas.
