A Cognitive Behavioral Response
In the book, Creativity: A Handbook for Teachers, creativity was defined as “the capacity to create a solution that is both novel and appropriate”. The cognitive behavior system within our brains affects the process of new ideas being produced. When information is collected and filtered in our brains, either real or imagined, the resulted efforts can in fact, push our thinking down new pathways.
For all you daydreamers out there, it might actually serve you well because according to Creativity and the Brain, “Imagination should be constrained by probabilities of composition of elementary operations, corresponding to activations of specific brain subnetworks.” The resulting filtering we do of the real versus imagined results in increased creative thought.
Its interesting to note, recent studies have shown this creative process often peaks whilst we are performing everyday, common rather mundane activity. Our brain is triggered in a remote response to our body’s patterned movements, causing a positive affirmation in the brain.
The result? AN IDEA.