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Short Oxygen Pulses Enhance Creative Problem-Solving

2025-09-28

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Creativity is central to human innovation, yet it often fluctuates from moment to moment. Identifying simple interventions to reliably boost creativity has broad scientific and societal value. Here, we tested whether short-pulse oxygen inhalation enhances creative problem-solving. Sixty participants performed two established tasks: the Alternative Uses Test (AUT), capturing divergent idea generation, and the Fusio...

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Literature Corpus work: 837a0483-6a65-5cf7-a7e8-1debea550442
DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.26.678411

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