Highlights•We outline a neurocognitive framework of creative cognition.•It focuses on the
role of memory, attention, and cognitive control.•It integrates evidence from cognitive and …

Researchers have recently begun to examine the neural basis of musical improvisation, one
of the most complex forms of creative behavior. The emerging field of improvisation …

Creative ideas likely result from searching and combining semantic memory knowledge, yet
the mechanisms acting on memory to yield creative ideas remain unclear. Here, we …

People's ability to think creatively is a primary means of technological and cultural progress,
yet the neural architecture of the highly creative brain remains largely undefined. Here, we …

Distributed networks of brain areas interact with one another in a time-varying fashion to
enable complex cognitive and sensorimotor functions. Here we used new network-analysis …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Curiosity, creativity, and aesthetics are typically studied separately. The extent to which they
share psychological and neural mechanisms is not well understood, despite all being linked …

Cognitive control, the ability to limit attention to goal-relevant information, aids performance
on a wide range of laboratory tasks. However, there are many day-to-day functions which …

Working memory, the ability to keep recently accessed information available for immediate
manipulation, has been proposed to rely on two mechanisms that appear difficult to …

Functional neuroimaging research has recently revealed brain network interactions during
performance on creative thinking tasks—particularly among regions of the default and …