SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft for more brain hacks, health tips and stories and psychology (and ring that bell!) 👉 http://ow.ly/rt5IE MY PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/BrainCraft My Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill | Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill Your brain uses lots of different pathways to communicate – which form complex networks in your brain. Creativity depends on the cooperation of two competing networks: one that generates spontaneous thoughts (the default mode network) and the executive control center of the brain that governs everything else. Our random, free-flowing thoughts that are worthy of further exploration pop into our consciousness when they're recruited by the executive control network. BrainCraft was created by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) and is brought to you by PBS Digital Studios. Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. This episode was written by Bahar Gholipour and produced/animated by Vanessa Hill. FURTHER READING 📚 Kidd, C., & Hayden, B. Y. (2015). The psychology and neuroscience of curiosity. Neuron, 88(3), 449-460. http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(15)00767-9 De Pisapia, N., Bacci, F., Parrott, D., & Melcher, D. (2016). Brain networks for visual creativity: a functional connectivity study of planning a visual artwork. Scientific reports, 6. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39185 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-real-neuroscience-of-creativity/