Neuroscience

The Role of (in)Active Neurons in Creativity

Less deactivated neurons → higher semantic distances → more creativity?

Everything written in the following is speculative.

When staring at an object e.g. an extinguisher, all kinds of neurons activate while, simultaneously, some of these neurons gets deactivated (e.g. via top-down regulation or lateral inhibition).

The neurons that are deactivated are the ones not representing the object, in this case the…