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Cerebellum may be site of creative spark

Playing Pictionary linked to boosted activity in workhorse region of the brain

pictionary drawings

DESTINATION IMAGINATION  As participants came up with creative ways to draw verbs, brain activity in the cerebellum increased. 

M. Saggar et al/Scientific Reports 2015

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

Creative sparks may fly from the brain’s cerebellum. Activity in that part of the brain, once thought to be a plodding, steady workhorse, increased as people inside an fMRI scanner created Pictionary drawings, scientists report May 28 in Scientific Reports.