Creativity relies on the reorganizing of multimodal information and flexible switching between different modes of thinking, suggesting an association between creativity and the reconfiguration of functional brain networks. Here, we investigated global and regional brain dynamics in high-creative (HCG, N = 22) and a low-creative (LCG, N = 20) groups during a divergent creative thinking task. We found that during the creative thinking task, the HCG demonstrated higher global network flexibility, as compared to the LCG. In addition, creative thinking in the HCG was associated with significantly higher regional flexibility in the medial superior temporal gyrus, superior parietal lobule, precuneus, nucleus accumbens, and the ventral inferior frontal gyrus. Interestingly, the LCG demonstrated decreased regional flexibility in the medial superior temporal gyrus, superior parietal lobule, and the ventral inferior frontal gyrus. We also found that the changes in global and regional flexibility in the creative compared with the control tasks were good features allowing for distinguishing between the HCG and the LCG. Taken together, these findings provide evidence that divergent creative thinking is associated with flexible reconfiguration of brain networks involved in verbal, working memory, and reward processing.

创造力依赖于多模态信息的重组和不同思维模式之间的灵活切换，这表明创造力与功能性大脑网络的重构之间存在关联。在这里，我们调查了高创造力（HCG，N  = 22）和低创造力（LCG，N = 20) 在不同的创造性思维任务中分组。我们发现，在创造性思维任务中，与 LCG 相比，HCG 表现出更高的全局网络灵活性。此外，HCG 中的创造性思维与内侧颞上回、顶上小叶、楔前叶、伏隔核和腹侧额下回显着更高的区域灵活性有关。有趣的是，LCG 显示内侧颞上回、顶上小叶和腹侧额下回的区域灵活性降低。我们还发现，与控制任务相比，创意的全局和区域灵活性的变化是很好的特征，可以区分 HCG 和 LCG。综合起来，