Creativity and intact executive function

[Drewbacca]

Originally Posted by MentalNomad

Okay, I initially misinterpreted here, forget the prior message. You meant that mood has more effect on creativity than intelligence does? As in mood effects creativity, but intelligence is comparatively lacking in its influence?



Based off of this quote, I don't want to ignore executive functions, though, and not base creativity solely off of mood.

I don't know if I'm understanding what they found, based solely on the abstract. I'd need to read the results section to be confident that I am interpreting what they found correctly.

If I did read it correctly, it implied that executive function works better during the manic episode and that there is a correlation between mania and creativity that is not produced in a normal or depressive mood. They also seemed to imply that intelligence has nothing to do with creativity, although they may just be stating that intelligence doesn't play a significant role (i.e. that a depressed person with higher intelligence doesn't perform better than a manic person with low intelligence in a test of creativity). Again, it's hard to say without reading the study in its entirety.

[Drewbacca]

You might enjoy listening to the following 30min radio interview as well:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/21/148607...-the-workplace

[MentalNomad]

I agree with you earlier post, I had simply misinterpreted it initially. Yes, it seems very clear that according to that study that intelligence does not influence creativity in the mood episode types, its effect in NTs hasn't been established, to my knowledge.

What I got out of the article (the conclusion) was that creativity in BD was dependent on intact executive function and the "hyperdopaminergic state" of mania, and that manic and mixed state patients exhibited more creativity than depressed individuals. Reading the full article would be ideal, of course.

I'll listen to that radio interview in a bit, seems interesting.