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Your brain uses lots of different pathways to communicate – which form complex networks in your brain. Creativity depends on the cooperation of two competing networks: one that generates spontaneous thoughts (the default mode network) and the executive control center of the brain that governs everything else. Our random, freeflowing thoughts that are worthy of further exploration pop into our consciousness when they're recruited by the executive control network.

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FURTHER READING
Kidd, C., & Hayden, B. Y. (2015). The psychology and neuroscience of curiosity. Neuron, 88(3), 449460. http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S...

De Pisapia, N., Bacci, F., Parrott, D., & Melcher, D. (2016). Brain networks for visual creativity: a functional connectivity study of planning a visual artwork. Scientific reports, 6. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep3...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...