Lessons in Writing — From Neuroscience

This is your brain on poetry.

Liu, S., Erkkinen, M. G., Healey, M. L., Xu, Y., Swett, K. E., Chow, H. M., & Braun, A. R. (2015). Brain activity and connectivity during poetry composition: Toward a multidimensional model of the creative process. Human Brain Mapping, 36(9), 3351–3372.

This is your brain on poetry.

Specifically, this is how the average brain activates when we compose a poem.

This is one of my favourite images, and not just because I’m a geeky psychologist who thinks gazing at brain imaging counts as a good time.