Leaky Sensory Gating Can Inhibit Creativity

April 26, 2016 Scott Joy

Summary

Research links creativity with inability to filter irrelevant sensory information.

New Northwestern University research suggests why the inability to shut out competing sensory information while focusing on the creative project at hand might have been so acute for geniuses such as Proust, Franz Kafka, Charles Darwin, Anton Chekhov and many others.

Neuropsychologia March 2015

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