Alpha Brain Waves May Suppress Obvious Ideas to Foster Creativity

Creative thought requires that we break away from more obvious ideas, but how this actually happens in the brain has remained a mystery.

Now scientists from Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths, University of London, have discovered that alpha brain waves play a vital role in suppressing our habitual thinking modes in order to allow access to more unusual ideas.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that these brain waves — alpha...

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