Neural correlates of metacontrol persistence and flexibility induced by creativity and meditation.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) October 2, 2025 Weitao Zhang, Zsuzsika Sjoerds, Rebecca Mourits et al.
The neural mechanisms underlying the cognitive metacontrol states of persistence and flexibility are not yet fully understood but are thought to be modulated by frontal and striatal dopamine, respectively. In this study, we attempted to induce persistence and flexibility states by having participants engage in 2 creativity tasks (remote associates task and alternative uses task) and 2...