Beyond Divergent Thinking: Examining Prefrontal Cortex Contributions to a Novel Creativity Task with Noninvasive Electric Brain Stimulation

Cognitive neuroscience studies of creativity typically employ divergent thinking tasks that prioritize bottom-up relative to top-down processes for generating novel responses. We introduce a novel task that incorporates both bottom-up and top-down thought during everyday problem solving. Using transcranial direct current stimulation we examine prefrontal contributions to this task.