Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to ...

Creative activities like dancing, painting, or gaming may help keep your brain younger by strengthening brain connections. Even beginners benefit—short bursts of creative learning, such as a few ...

For decades, the idea that creativity comes from the right side of the brain has dominated popular culture. People have been told they're either "right-brained" (creative, intuitive) or "left-brained" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regularly engaging in creative activities—like painting, dancing, or gaming—can help keep your brain biologically younger, ...

USCB scientists discovered that watching just seven minutes can open your mind and enhance creativity.

Functional connectivity with the rFP (green, left) defines a distributed brain circuit (right) that will encompass coordinates activated by creativity tasks. Brigham researchers analyzed data from 857 ...

From van Gogh to Amy Winehouse, the trope of the suffering artist has been around nearly as long as art itself—but is the ...

Electrodes at multiple brain regions reveal brain activity in real time. Colored dots show the locations of all of the electrodes across all patients, color-coded by brain region. Red dots in the ...

If you got good grades in your creative writing class, it probably had more to do with how your brain works rather than how hard you studied. A research team at University of Utah Health and based in ...

Business success simply isn't going to happen without the creativity required to dream up new ideas and new visions for the future. Think about Steve Jobs, whose natural creativity changed the way we ...

It might be time to dust off those dancing shoes or pick up a paintbrush. Creative hobbies have been found to help keep your brain young, according to new research published in Nature Communications.