Adolescence and early adulthood are developmental time periods during which
creative cognition is highly important for adapting to environmental changes.
Divergent thinking, which refers to generating novel and useful solutions to openended
problems, has often been used as a measure of creative cognition.Gray Matter Morphology and Divergent Thinking in Adolescents and Young Adults.
The cortical thickness data were averaged across the whole study sample in the
spherical coordinate system after smoothing (FWHM 15 mm), so that surface
areas with a significant effect of mean cortical thickness differences and the
different creativity measures could be overlaid in statistical difference maps (using
t-statistics) for both the cross-sectional and training study
the AUT-scanner.