Brainwork: a pilot brain computer interface study on the relationship between creativity, personality and imagination

The aims of this work is to identify possible biomarkers (EEG) related to the creative process in specific tasks, exploring it in a real-time ecological setting, investigating the relation between explicit and implicit mechanisms, between creativity and personality trait, the semantic memory and to validate a tool to study creativeness. The pilot study reveals the presence of significant relations between personality components, EEG indices and creative processes, suggesting that the use of a self-echo setting may be applied also to boost creativity in people with specific thinking styles and personality traits, to empower creativity in a tailored fashion.