Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
You might be at your most creative when you’re hyper-focused and immersed in a task. Or perhaps it’s when your mind wanders, and you shift your attention to another task (or to nothing at all). Three different networks in the brain are likely involved with creativity: the executive attention network, default mode network, and salience network. These networks help you concentrate and detect errors, create pictures in your mind, and filter important ideas from less important ones.
This is a video from the 2022 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
Created by Nathaniel Sabater.
You might be at your most creative when you’re hyper-focused and immersed in a task. Or perhaps it’s when your mind wanders, and you shift your attention to another task (or to nothing at all). Three different networks in the brain are likely involved with creativity: the executive attention network, default mode network, and salience network. These networks help you concentrate and detect errors, create pictures in your mind, and filter important ideas from less important ones.
This is a video from the 2022 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
Created by Nathaniel Sabater.
