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The article written by Katie Palmer discusses several experiments done to be able to observe the activity of the brain and locate which area of the brain activates creativity. One study done by Stanford is to study the brain while the participants plays Pictionary because Pictionary is a great example of visual creativity. While playing Pictionary, Stanford’s goal is to study the are of the brain that is activated.

A control task is carefully designed to eliminate other conditions and activities of the brain that does not relate to creativity. However, possible problem in this experiment is that the control task does not give great results since using zig-zag is not identical to the test condition, unlike Pictionary a zigzag is not a language

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