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.
This study was part of a large project investigating the neural mechanisms
underlying creative cognition [14, 29, 32]. All procedures were approved by the
Internal Review Board of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).