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Human hippocampal ripples loosen medial prefrontal constraints to foster creative thinking

2025-07-26

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Creative thinking often requires breaking away from dominant mental schemas to generate novel and useful ideas. Yet how the human brain relaxes schematic constraints to enable creativity remains unclear. Using human intracranial EEG recordings, we found that moments of creative idea generation were accompanied by increased hippocampal ripple events, a concurrent reduction in ripple-triggered high-frequency activit...

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6dc68994-5165-5054-9169-9901ba9a5e68
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10.1101/2025.07.22.666046
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