More sensitive, more creative?
A study in the September 2003 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says the brains of creative people appear to be more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment.
A Science Daily summary said:
Other people’s brains might shut out this same information through a process called “latent inhibition” - defined as an animal’s unconscious capacity to ignore stimuli that experience has shown are irrelevant to its needs. Through psychological testing, the researchers showed that creative individuals are much more likely to have low levels of latent inhibition.
“This means that creative individuals remain in contact with the extra information constantly streaming in from the environment,” says co-author and University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson.
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The image is from an edition of book : The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
